Sentences with phrase «arctic ice still»

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

Not exact matches

With many sanctuaries still showing the effects from months of arctic temperatures, ice, and record - breaking snowfalls, participants can be expected to match, if not surpass, the totals from the 2014 cleanup.

Potentially catastrophic amounts of methane lie trapped as so - called burning ices, or methane hydrates, in the permafrost beneath arctic tundra — as much as 10,000,000 teragrams still trapped compared with just 5,000 teragrams in the atmosphere today, according to Simpson.

The arctic has been entirely ice free many times in history, because we were not there to examine it, it still happened.

Even if the temperature is still 2 degrees lower than in 100BC (per GISP2), there SHOULD be less ice in the arctic.

Ove Hoegh - Guldberg appeared to be your typical, alarmist cherry - picker who wanted to stress one particular point (arctic ice reduction), ignore the antarctic increase but still make comments that the interviewer was not looking at things globally when it suited his (Ove's) purpose.

But in polar regions [within arctic circle] one is still going to have 6 months per year of darkness and therefore will still have freezing weather, though polar ice may not form during the winter.

My question still stands: why was there a large arctic sea ice melt in 2008 and 2009 and not in 1998, given that 1998, for whatever reason, was a year of high summer temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere?