They concluded there was a one-in-20 chance that the melting ice would drive up sea levels by more than 84cm, essentially saying there is a 95% chance it would not go above this figure.
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Lilliputian's engineering miracle was in designing a tiny solid-oxide fuel cell that instead of melting everything in its vicinity is merely warm to the touch.
It concluded that speedups in melting rates are strictly short-term, transient phenomena, occurring primarily during summer months.
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In an Op-Ed in the New York Times, Cohen makes the argument that the melting of the ice is leading to more moisture in the atmosphere and more snowfall in Siberia, just north of extremely high mountain ranges such as the Himilayas.
The Supreme Court is due to rule soon on whether it is constitutional to establish quotas at Brazil's universities for different ethnic groups, in a decision that pits the melting-pot view of Brazilian history against the quilombola view.
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Since sea-ice is already in the water, its melting has little effect on sea levels.
Environmentalists point to Inuit communities threatened by melting ice in Greenland, and those living around the fast-shrinking Lake Chad in Africa, as among many already feeling the effects.
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His open-mindedness put him at ease in America's melting pot, and at odds with the rhetoric about values that pervades American politics.
For a number of reasons, computer models with added atmospheric carbon dioxide preferentially warm the mid-and high-latitude land areas of the northern hemisphere that are ice-free, which also enhances summer melting of the relatively shallow ice in the Arctic Ocean.
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And it was in that context that I was sworn into office almost four years ago, at a time when the banking system was melting down, at a time when -- the month I was sworn in, we lost 800, 000 jobs, the worst crisis since the Great Depression.
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The Environment Agency says rain and melting snow are expected to lead to rising water levels in rivers in south-west England and has three flood warnings in place.
And while the extra water from the melting glacier may be increasing the fertility of adjacent lowland areas in the short-term, water supplies would become critically low if it disappears.
In Moscow, the enterprise of scraping the snow off the streets and pavements, forming it into snow hillocks, carting it off in 6, 000-odd snow vehicles for dumping or melting, and finally zapping it with chemicals to speed the thaw is vast and costly (which helps to explain why Yuri Luzhkov, the city's mayor, threatened last year to fine meteorologists who make wrong forecasts).
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Such a rise would probably lead to fast-melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, drought, disease and collapsing agriculture in poor countries, and mass migration.
In fact, recent research by Blancon et al published in Nature in 2009, examining the paleoclimate record, shows sea-level rises of 3 metres in 50 years due to the rapid melting of ice sheets 123, 000 years ago in the Eemian, when the energy imbalance in the climate system was less than that to which we are now subjecting the planet.
Moreover, the Kilimanjaro glacier is melting in a way that suggests it is probably not caused by the supposedly CO 2-induced higher temperatures but by reduced precipitation.
The 68-mile route to the fishing town of Ullapool is a relatively recent addition to a landscape forged in the Ice Age, when melting glaciers gouged its long, deep valleys and seawater-filled lochs and fjords.
In its current state, scratching requires an absurd dexterity and a love for mind-melting sonic distortions.
That would affront the French republican notion that a melting-pot should produce a single stew, as, by and large, did earlier waves of immigration in the past half-century from Eastern Europe, Portugal and Italy.
That means more melting ice in the Arctic, dumping fresh water into the salty sea and making a mess of the all-important Gulf jet stream, which makes northern U.S. habitable.
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Brigadier Michael Ondoga, of AMISOM, told CNN recently that although Al-Shabaab was "largely defeated" in Mogadishu, there were still issues with its members "melting into the population" and taking advantage of the city's large size to hide.
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To be more specific, the article discusses a study published in the journal Science states that higher temperatures over the past two decades have contributed to a nearly half-inch rise in global sea levels since 1992, attributing about 30% of that increase to melting of polar ice sheets.
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In 1975, at age 25, he left for Indonesia, where he started a scrap-melting steel plant with a local partner.
Glaciers in monsoonal climates, unlike high-latitude glaciers, gain mass from precipitation during the same warm season in which they lose mass from melting, which makes their behaviour complex.
Joss himself figures only in the minds of these people, except in one rhapsodic trumpet-playing section, where we see him in essence male and female stripped away melting into his music.
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