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«We are focusing on reviving mammoth genes and making a mammoth / elephant hybrid and (helping) them spread to vast wild, arctic climates,» Church says.

The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.

Also, if your baby is born in the wintertime, like my first was, and you live in a practically arctic climate, like I do, then you may not be using the stroller much to begin with anyway.

But there is also an older Green tradition that cultures the world over celebrate as Spring arrives in temperate and arctic climates and the wet season arrives in tropical climates.

The team's research showed that Vikings initially caught cod in the arctic waters off Norway's Lofoten Islands, whose climate allows for preservation through air drying, rather than more expensive salting.

Using statistically modeled maps drawn from satellite data and other sources, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have projected that the near - surface permafrost that presently underlies 38 percent of boreal and arctic Alaska would be reduced by 16 to 24 percent by the end of the 21st century under widely accepted climate scenarios.

This study was the first to simulate whole ecosystem warming in the arctic, including permafrost degradation, similar to what is projected to happen as a result of climate change.

The climate is warming in the arctic at twice the rate of the rest of the globe creating a longer growing season and increased plant growth, which captures atmospheric carbon, and thawing permafrost, which releases carbon into the atmosphere.

Another trend that seems equally destined to last is profound interest in arctic manifestations of global climate change.

Warming of arctic soils and thawing of permafrost thus can have substantial consequences for the global climate, as the large C and N stores could be released to the atmosphere as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).

The Greenland site is accessible year - round, but global climate change could make finding gems in the Canadian arctic easier.

Countering a widely - held view that thawing permafrost accelerates atmospheric warming, a study published this week in the scientific journal Nature suggests arctic thermokarst lakes are «net climate coolers» when observed over longer, millennial, time scales.

Using published data from the circumpolar arctic, their own new field observations of Siberian permafrost and thermokarsts, radiocarbon dating, atmospheric modeling, and spatial analyses, the research team studied how thawing permafrost is affecting climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

Because nitrogen and carbon cycles are tightly coupled, the team's discovery might also alter projections of carbon storage or release from arctic ecosystems as the climate warms.

The study has important implications for predicting which arctic plant species will dominate as the climate warms, as well as how much carbon tundra ecosystems can store.

In «A Phoenix Flies to Mars», Andrew Fazekas, the Canadian Editor for Science's Next Wave, writes about the NASA Phoenix polar lander, and Canada's contribution to the project: a sophisticated meteorological station developed by a team of Canadian scientists and engineers that will analyze Mars» arctic climate.

However, research at Umeå University's climate research centre in Abisko and University of Antwerp shows that alien plants are no longer rare above the arctic circle.

With renewed interest in arctic oil and gas development and recognition that the polar regions are early warning systems for climate change, both foreign and Canadian researchers once again are focusing on the Arctic.

The intent is not to make perfect copies of extinct Woolly Mammoths, but to focus on the mammoth adaptations needed for Asian elephants to thrive in the cold climate of the arctic.

Hinzman, L.D., et al., 2005: Evidence and implications of recent climate change in northern Alaska and other arctic regions.

For the Arctic Climate - driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes is at the PNAS site.

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Now the question is, can the real climate scientists come forward and present the truth about global warming, or are we in for more ridiculous predictions about an ice free arctic by 2013 and the extinction of polar bears?

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The Finnish Meteorological Institute is a leading expert in meteorology, air quality, climate change, earth observation, marine and arctic research areas.

Rhodiola rosea is an adaptogen, a yellow - petalled plant growing in arctic climates which calms your mind and slashes stress levels.

On the downside, there was quite a bit of driveline shudder on upshifts, especially into the higher gears; also, the automatic climate control system seemed to deliver a similar blast of arctic air whether it was set at 67 or 75 degrees, requiring manual fan control to keep from freezing occupants.

The north side of the Brooks Range has an arctic climate.

Effects of climate change on arctic marine mammal health.

This study provides a characteristic archive of arctic lake ontogeny and a valuable temperature record from a remote climate - sensitive area of northern Russia.

So while, tropical forest inside the arctic circle is not necessarily a negative on its own merits, the ecological turmoil that the planet will go through before we are nice and relatively settled again, at whatever climate, will prove very hard to endure.

Her research suggests that the Putin administration welcomes climate change as beneficial for Russia, and foresees increased development in Siberia and along the shores of the arctic.

For the Arctic Climate - driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes is at the PNAS site.

There is no denying that the arctic is melting at a record - setting pace and that this is related to global warming and climate change, but Box is pursuing a theory that soot from wildfires and burning coal in power plants is making Greenland's glaciers melt even faster than they would because of global warming alone.

In the NH a lot of land surrounding the arctic ocean is subject to the combination of decrease in seasonal snow cover (with climate warming), and decreasing albedo due to vegetation feedbacks.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

Here's my uneducated question — while I respect Gavin's comments about not abusing the science, it seems to me that many measurable indicators of climate change are (to the extent I can tell) occurring / progressing / worsening faster than predicted by most models, whether we're talking about atmospheric CO2 levels, arctic ice melting, glacial retreat, etc..

Possible Effects of Climate Warming on Selected Populations of Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Canadian Arctic IAN STIRLING and CLAIRE L. PARKINSON, ARCTIC, VOL.

If, and this is THE big IF, we have finally passed one of the climate tipping points, then all past statistics are of no value in predicting the new dynamics of ice extent in the arctic.

One of the ironic facts connected to this is the popularity of the DMI arctic temperature data among certain denialists, who are in all other cases most disdainful of climate models.

The rise of CO2 from 270ppm to now over 400ppm, the extent of equatorial and sub tropical deforestation, the soot deposits on the polar ice caps, the increase in atmospheric water vapour due to a corresponding increase in ocean temps and changes in ocean currents, the extreme ice albedo currently happening in the arctic etc, etc are all conspiring in tandem to alter the climate as we know it.

I think this would create a bit of thermal imbalance in the climate and also would mean large changes in the weather pattern, which would * not * be limited only in the arctic region...

Without GHG emissions mitigation, they will blink out just as will numerous other species dependent upon cold climate conditions in the arctic and at high elevations around the world.

The ACIA is the first comprehensively researched, fully referenced, and independently reviewed evaluation of arctic climate change and its impacts for the region and for the world.

So you also contend that climate models show skill and can be relied upon, in addition to highlighting that increased radiative forcing from greenhouses gases is melting the arctic ice.

Changes in a suite of ecological processes currently underway across the broader arctic region are consistent with Earth system model predictions of climate - induced geographic shifts in the range extent and functioning of the tundra and boreal forest biomes.

I try to give every visitor the assumption of sincere interest and a chance to defend their point of view (an effort that has been slipping over the years, I think I am tired) but the majority are immune to logic and scientific reason even on the trivial points like «weather is not climate» and «arctic sea ice is increasing ``.