A really inconvenient truth — it seems that
total polar sea ice is essentially stable, notwithstanding Mr. Gore's panic attack prediction.
Not exact matches
That corresponds to a roughly 3 1/2 week shift at either end — and seven weeks of
total loss of good
sea ice habitat for
polar bears — over the 35 years of Arctic
sea ice data.
At an average height of 13,000 feet above
sea level, they make up the largest area of
ice outside the
polar regions, nearly a sixth of the world's
total.
This interpretation is further supported by the minimum of the
total number of dinoflagellate cysts and peak concentrations of the dinoflagellate species Impagidinium pallidum (Fig. 7d), indicative of cold
polar conditions and an extensive seasonal
sea ice cover42.
It raises the
sea level due to the melting of
polar ice (which is already recognised to be destined for
total summer melting), which will relocate tens of millions of people.
The
total amount of
sea ice in the
polar regions during that time of the year is about 17 million square kilometers.
The
total failure of
polar bear numbers to crash as predicted in response to the abrupt decline in summer
sea ice in 2007 and persistent low summer
sea ice levels since then (Crockford 2017), is vindication for Mitch Taylor.
On Sunday, the
total amount of
sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean was 1.58 million square miles, the smallest size ever observed by NASA satellites since the space agency began monitoring earth's
polar ice caps 30 years ago.
In contrast to the
polar regions, the network of lower latitude small glaciers and
ice caps, although making up only about four percent of the
total land
ice area or about 760,000 square kilometers, may have provided as much as 60 percent of the
total glacier contribution to
sea level change since 1990s (Meier et al. 2007).
Across the Arctic, there has been only a marginal decline in
total sea ice extent (Fig. 6) between March and June, the critical spring feeding period when
polar bears require the
ice as a hunting platform for gorging on young, fat seals.