I guess the iconic figure of it is the melting of the ice in the Arctic Sea.

Melting polar icecaps could also contribute to an increase in sea levels.

Global warming may also cause the ice of Antarctica to melt a global rise in sea level would result.

But as disturbing as that is, I think the bigger problem for harp seals is the loss of sea ice due to global warming.

Melty melt

In Antarctica, even a slight increase in temperature at higher latitudes could cause thawing of the ice and, consequently, a significant rise in sealevel. 11

No one mentioned anything about melting.

The melting of arctic ice is one example.

The mass fraction of ices is between 49 55 .

I literally couldn't keep up with the drift of the ice.

This melting has a major impact on the ocean around an iceberg.

If you use wind, you guarantee ice will last.

The HIV and the problems it is causing are greater than the receding ice.

The ice cap is the largest outside of Antarctica and Greenland.

Not enough to keep the ice in Greenland from crashing into the ocean.

The amount of a moderate to severe snow melting of an area equivalent to the size of California.

The Arctic ice is shrinking because the ocean under the ice is warming.

And the Northwest Passage in the Arctic became ice free for the first time in living memory.

Rising temperatures have lengthened the freeze free season in many regions, and glaciers are melting.

It is estimated that 82 of the ice that capped the mountain, when it was first recorded in 1912, is now gone. (IPCC, 2001)

Icebergs are born when they calve off of glaciers or break off of ice shelves.

Lifespan Because the source of the Indus River is glacial meltwater from the Himalayas, the river carries huge amounts of sediment.

She noticed that the melting snow that still sprinkled his shoulders dripped upon her carpet.

And all of this is played out against the backdrop of transient pack ice that moves with wind and tide.

The new ice had formed around and under the bubble, so that it was included between the two ices.

Likewise, Gore agonizes over the accelerated melting of ice in Greenland and what it means for the planet, but overlooks the IPCC s conclusion that, if sustained, the current rate of melting would add just three inches to the sea level rise by the end of the century.

However, in view of the severity of the winter it now has to be expected that the melting of the snow and the saturation of the ground will result in widespread flooding.

Many of the ducks then entered the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia and were trapped in the Arctic ice.

In 1927, an airfield was constructed as part of a program to monitor ice in Hudson Bay.

When United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki moon recently visited Antarctica, he was impressed by the melting ice he saw there.

Finally, morning of day 11, we got the all clear, loaded up the helicopters two helicopters flying in tandem dropped me off at the edge of the pack ice.

Some companies even seem to celebrate the melting of the polar ice cap, because it will reduce the cost of extracting the oil that lies beneath the Arctic Ocean.

The 1990s were the warmest decade on record, forcing glaciers and Arctic ice to retreat.

Melting polar ice will cause rising seas to inundate low lying fertile delta regions on which hundreds of millions of people grow their food.

The melting of Antarctic ice, for example, could raise the sea level, wiping out islands and flooding coastal areas.

The first concerned the environmental devastation that he could observe including the retreat of glaciers and the loss of land cover as he flew from Bhutan to India.

And, whereas Gore points to shrinking sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere, he fails to mention that ice in the Southern Hemisphere is increasing.

A relatively small amount of melting beneath the Amundsen Sea s ice shelf has pushed its grounding line to the top of a sub glacial hill, from which it is now rolling down.

We could also put a bigger focus on reducing black carbon, considered responsible for as much as 40 of current net warming and one third of Arctic melting. Black carbon is essentially the soot produced by diesel emissions, and in developing countries by the burning of organic matter to cook food and stay warm.

We could also put a bigger focus on reducing black carbon, considered responsible for as much as 40 of current net warming and one third of Arctic melting.

What she fails to tell us is that even a substantial reduction in emissions at a high cost will have an immeasurable effect on snowmelt by 2050.

Observable effects of climate change on water resources in Africa include flooding, drought, change in distribution of rainfall, drying up of rivers, melting of glaciers and the receding of bodies of water.

And that's where I think organizations like TED, like the Extreme Ice Survey can have a terrific impact on human perception and bring us along.

But, for now, a complete meltdown seems distinctly less likely than gradual stabilization followed by a tepid recovery, with soaring debt levels and lingering high unemployment.

And what scientists didn't predict is that, as this ice melts, these big pockets of black water are forming and they're grabbing the sun's energy and accelerating the melting process.