Sentences with phrase «polar ice cap»

«Arctic Oil & Gas cites recent scientific evidence that huge, floating mats of azolla - a prehistoric fern believed to have covered much of the Arctic Ocean during a planetary hothouse era about 55 million years ago - decomposed soon after the age of the dinosaurs and exist today as «vast hydrocarbon resources» trapped in layers of rock below the polar ice cap.»

The disappearance of the polar ice cap could also affect global ocean circulation patterns, and its melting has already imperiled native species such as the polar bear.

There is substantial uncertainty in the rate of heat transport into the deep ocean, and in the rate of polar ice cap melting.

... Many scientists predict — shockingly — that the entire north polar ice cap may be completely gone during summer months during the first term of the next president.

Based on the status of the polar ice cap vis a vis its line of declination to the sun.

As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped.

Although arctic experts said there were many signs of warming, including a thinning and shrinking of the polar ice cap, there was no way to link a patch of sun - dappled water at the pole to climate change.

Also, this chart does NOT represent the polar ice cap.

Gore must be ecstatic that his 2013 «Entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 5 years» prediction has come in way ahead of schedule.

Receeding polar ice cap reflection could be a decreasing and limited positive feedback factor.

Where is there anything like the mutual feedback between the ocean, the polar ice cap, the clouds, and the atmosphere?

Record polar ice cap melt dick heads... absolute correlation between Co2 and temperature rise... Deal with it....

«At medium sea levels, powerful forces − such as the dramatic acceleration of polar ice cap melting − are not necessary to result in abrupt climate shifts and associated drastic temperature changes.»

Satellite photographs show that the polar ice cap at the time of maximum summer melt — about now — has been reduced by about 6 percent since 1980.

Al Gore, unfazed by his climate conviction, went on to claim «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months will be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years,»

The rhetoric and predictions of global warming acolytes have been every bit as confusing in the United States, with former vice president and carbon - credit entrepreneur Al Gore telling an audience in a 2009 speech that «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years.»

Serreze says if these warmer - than - average conditions persist, the Arctic polar ice cap could disappear in late summer within a couple of decades.

It should also be noted here that approximately 20 % of the total earth energy imbalance results from the albedo change of a melting polar ice cap.

HANNITY: When the president says the debate is settled, when the secretary of state says that we're not going to — we have no time for a meeting with the Flat Earth Society — five years ago, Al Gore predicted the north polar ice cap would be completely ice - free.

According to Green and his colleagues, these would include an average increase of about 4 °C (~ 7 °F), which would be enough to melt the carbon dioxide ice in the northern polar ice cap.

Those «glaciers» were the south - polar ice cap.

The truth is that the polar ice cap is actually growing.

Nevertheless, as all the explorers who travelled closer and closer to the pole reported, the polar ice cap is quite thick, and persists year - round.

Back in 2009, Al Gore boldly declared that «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years.»

Five years ago, Al Gore predicted that by 2013 «the entire North polar ice cap will be gone.»

Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.

He also said over five years ago that in five years the polar ice cap would be gone, GONE!

Has anyone yet talked up designing a Mars lander that would be able to drill a core from the polar ice cap, scan it and give us another data set?

The statement about consequences was in a sentence concerning the polar ice cap, not hurricanes.

Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

«According to a 1972 article in the Christian Science Monitor, Belchen asserted that «a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice - free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000 ″»

Working with various collaborators, I have created installations dealing with the effects of the melting of the polar ice cap (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014; McLean Project for the Arts, 2015), the destruction of coral reefs worldwide (Artists and Makers, 2016) and the migration of infectious diseases (Otis street Arts Project, 2017).

The Warmind expansion takes players to the Clovis Bray research facility located on Mars» polar ice cap.

Global warming caused the melting of the northern polar ice cap, and tropical storms ravage all areas that didn't suffer from desertification.

Ana Bray, a Guardian long thought lost searches for a connection to her past - one that could be hidden forever beneath a polar ice cap on Mars.

The seas were choked with ice even in midsummer, for tremendous storms would crack the polar ice cap and fling mountainous cliffs into the paths of their wooden vessels.

• The polar ice cap will completely disappear within 100 years.

With enough fire - generating explosions, lethal lasers and gunfire to thaw a polar ice cap, the plot predicaments never fluster the ever - resourceful agent who manages to keep his oh - so - cool aura in the face of impending disaster.

Academy Award - winning Cold War thriller based on Alister MacLean's bestseller stars Rock Hudson as an American nuclear submarine captain in a deadly race against the Soviets to find a downed satellite beneath the polar ice cap.

Players will venture into a polar ice cap on Mars to explore epic adventures and activities!

Doc Greger isn't responsible for your health anymore than a polar ice cap is.

If you board a ship heading north from there, just before you reach the polar ice cap you run into a group of islands known as the Svalbard archipelago.

An examination of these changes gave them new insights into how much of the polar ice cap's carbon dioxide freezes out of the atmosphere during winter.

We land bouncily, overshoot the runway (built, the story goes, by robots from previous unmanned missions), and nearly plummet into a deep rift near the north polar ice cap.

* The late - summer polar ice cap, already at historic lows today, would shrink only another quarter and hold steady by century's end, instead of melting by more than three - quarters with no let - up in sight.

Our study suggests that at medium sea levels, powerful forces, such as the dramatic acceleration of polar ice cap melting, are not necessary to create abrupt climate shifts and temperature changes.»

Reviews range from simple comments such as «this is a good piece of science journalism» to detailed scientific explanations such as how «polar ice cap» fails to distinguish between land ice and sea ice.

Warm air and surface water are melting the summer polar ice cap.

The melting of the polar ice cap would have a drastic effect: Sea level would rise by several meters around the world, impacting hundreds of millions of people who live close to coasts.

The results, in the October 15 Science, agree with theoretical predictions, suggesting that superconducting gravimeters can help satellites chart the earth's gravity to map changes in polar ice cap thickness, seawater levels, atmospheric density and planetary geology.