Sentences with phrase «arctic ice»

Any officers who desire promotion are smart enough not to report an increase in arctic ice.

Today the truth is, there is a record amount of arctic ice for this time of year.

Our goal is to slow climate change by protecting arctic ice with eco-friendly materials that reflect away the sun's heat.

Consider the parallel example of measurement of arctic ice area.

In a previous conversation about arctic ice someone remarked that you didn't appear to read things that people referenced you.

Even with a cold winter and cool summer, arctic ice STILL declined to a new record low.

In 2008 we lost more arctic ice and more of the thicker ice beyond 2007.

The chart does not represent the average arctic ice.

I compared current arctic ice coverage area with the last ten years.

This year's arctic ice melt season is generating extraordinary interest.

There are no pictures of arctic ice from the 12th century.

The arctic temperatures and arctic ice extent varies in a very predictable 60 - 70 year cycle that relates to ocean cycles which are likely driven by solar changes.

In fact, while there is some evidence of a shrinking arctic ice cap in the Beaufort sea areas over the last decade, there is growth in the iceland glacier one of the largest in the world, there is growth in the section of ice due north of Canada (a map that Mark York put up) and there is a significant amount of research that shows that the antarctic ice cap is growing fairly rapidly while the Ross Ice shelf is shrinking.»

- Arctic ice at second - lowest extent since 1979 - As arctic ice shrinks, so does a denier claim

As you know I extensively researched the period of which I wrote - including visiting the Scott Polar institute in Cambridge (the real one...) I hope to write in more detail about the period from 1940 to the start of the satellite records (1972 or 1979) at some point, as whether or not arctic ice declined further or whether it increased roughly in line with the general cooling trend I don't know until I look.

In short, 2008's summer arctic ice extent observation is not a wheel off the GW bandwagon — it is one more nail in the coffin of denialism.

The scientific and societal relevance of improved understanding and response to a changing arctic ice cover has been underscored by a variety of planning documents.

The Greenland Ice Sheet and other arctic ice fields likely contributed no more than 4 m of the observed sea level rise, implying that there may also have been a contribution from Antarctica.

Overall, the curve shown in Figure 4 is commensurate with the notion that a thinner arctic ice cover that is more mobile can lead to greater seasonal and interannual variability, with a potential loss in predictability.

How a lost explorer, immured upon the floating arctic ice must be encouraged when, thanks to the radio he has with difficulty rescued and set up, he not only sends out the S.O.S. but suddenly hears an answer!

and how about nasa's recent report of the apparent arctic ocean gyre reversal to clockwise that is underway — that the counterclockwise gyre of the arctic ocean rotation (since 1989) which apparently also been largely responsible for centrifigally pushing arctic ice into warmer waters, speeding melting — should now predictably result in increasing amounts of ice due to the centripetal pull of the ice toward the north pole?

Much better if he had waited for my «Historic variations in arctics ice part 3» which goes into the period he is covering but is more thorough, as such places as the Scott polar institute has a valuable archive and library Where the real world data missing from his study, such as extensive russian material, can be seen.

Furthermore you use that interpretation to push the claim that temperatures for most of the holocene were warming than now which can hardly be supported by evidence of say arctic ice extent, glacial retreat levels etc, never mind other proxies.

Pushed from center stage by the expected record arctic ice and permafrost melt, tropical rain forest destruction has been elbowing its way back through the smoke and into view.