Nottingham Police said Ranson Road in St Ann's was closed on Monday night because of sheet ice.
This means that we can expect more than the one-meter sea level rise projected for 2100, a fact that the rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet, as well as strong indications that the western part of the Antarctic ice sheet is also melting, strongly support.
Mechanisms on the verge of being instigated include loss of Arctic sea ice, shrinkage of the Greenland ice sheet, loss of Antarctic ice shelves, and shrinkage of the Antarctic ice sheets.
Several hours from the South Pole, in the barren expanses of western Antarctica, a small team of American researchers has just finished their second field-season with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core project.
It has rained overnight and parts of the course are just a sheet of ice this morning.
Most of Greenland is covered by a sheet of ice that averages more than a mile thick.
Think of the independent contractor vs. employee line as a sheet of ice on a pristine winter lake.
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Simons and his colleague Christopher Haig directed particular attention to the Greenland ice sheet, noting that the Antarctic ice cap is actually getting bigger.
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The Elfstedentocht takes place anytime the weather is cold enough that the canals connecting 11 cities in the province form a thick and relatively unbroken sheet of ice.
Scientists are keen to study Antarctica's subglacial hydrological systems because liquid water beneath the ice sheet will influence its movement (the ice above Lake Whillans is moving at about 300m per year).
Scientists note that current climate-change models predict that some parts of the Antarctic ice sheet will grow while other parts will shrink, and that parts of the Greenland ice also will melt.
The radar sends radio wave pulses into the ice sheet, and the waves bounce off buried features, informing researchers about the characteristics of the snow and ice layers.
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Today, the ice sheet provides habitat for many species of seabirds, seals and penguins.
"We really want to know how much water is under the ice sheet, " she said.
The ice sheet's recent rate of loss around 200 gigatonnes a year represents a fourfold increase on a decade ago.
As a result, the sea is eating away the edge of the ice sheet at a faster rate.
But it did not destabilise the ice sheet or provide a new reason to worry about rising sea levels.
In fact, another recent study posted in Science, concluded that polar ice sheet melting has been massively overestimated.
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Over the next four days we observe independent scientists working to understand why the ice sheet is melting so rapidly.
The indirect effect is that it can "pre-condition" the ice shelves that float at the edges of the ice sheet.
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They estimate that there could be hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon stored in methane reservoirs under the ice sheet.
Nasa is coming under fire for an alarming headline in a news release warning: " Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt".
Arctic glaciers including the Greenland ice sheet are melting and disintegrating faster than expected.
The panels are mounted in an inverted V, allowing them to collect energy from the sun and sunlight reflected off the ice sheet.
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This autonomous, solar-powered robot carries a ground-penetrating radar to study how snow accumulates, adding layer upon layer to the ice sheet over time.
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The lake's location in the heart of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet makes it one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet.
She said the technology carried on the plane will provide researchers a chance to address questions regarding why the ice sheet is changing.
We fly over and land on Helheim Glacier, a major outlet for the ice sheet which has sped up dramatically in the last decade.
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