Goodyear looks to address this with the Ultra Grip
Ice WRT (winter reactive technology).
Although we weren't allowed to actually drive the test trucks on the snow or ice in the lab, the Ultra Grip
Ice WRT seemed to provide good grip as we road shotgun around the indoor test course.
So when Goodyear invited us to check out their new Ultra Grip
Ice WRT winter tire in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, we were a little shocked.
Not exact matches
So it seems you have a very conservative estimate from the CMIP ensembles, which are known to suffer from various weaknesses
wrt sea
ice, and which certainly don't capture the trends over the last decade or so.
WRT SLR, somewhere between 10M and all the
ice being gone is a real risk.
That these «events» should have a corresponding counter event is what concerns me
wrt polar sea
ice melt.
Having read the comments here and in Jones and Mann (2004) «Climate over past millennia», I have been reflecting on some of the comments about the hockey stick
wrt the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little
Ice Age (LIA).
WRT ice sheets, it's more about time scales than about semantics.
Some recent research also suggests there is a critical threshold
wrt the height of
ice cliffs.
In fact, it's pretty clear that the end - summer sea
ice extent at one Pole doesn't mean anything
WRT global temperature, especially if there is an opposite trend at the other Pole.
WRT our current discussion of
ice sheet dynamics, the latest IPCC report actually has * less * to offer in terms of icesheet change predictions precisely because there have been so many new findings and such dramatic changes in just the last few years.