Sentences with phrase «arctic levels»

I totally feel you with the office temps reaching arctic levels during the summer, regardless of how hot it is outside!

My husband, perpetually warm, always cranks up our air conditioner to sub arctic levels.

The spiritual temperature outside the Church has plunged to arctic levels and the flame of faith flickering in the hearts of the faithful needs more shelter than our weakened parish structures can provide.

The arctic level includes a sleigh ride and the pirate level includes a pretty awesome ship battle scenario.

Not exact matches

The melting of the arctic ice and the Greenland glaciers along with the warming of the ocean will raise sea levels and flood some of the world's most populous and fertile regions, the deltas of the great rivers.

Still, arctic ozone levels fell during most winters in the 1990s, making researchers worry that a northern ozone hole might appear.

Hurst estimates that even with phaseouts of those chemicals, the arctic ozone layer won't recover to its 1980 levels until at least 2050.

The level of preparation I achieved for arctic research facilitated my future development of laboratory experiments down South.

Because of the very low nitrate levels found in arctic tundra soil, scientists had assumed that plants in this biome do not use nitrate.

Ocean levels have fallen, arctic ice has increased, and so on.

Arctic cloudberry seed oil and arctic red cranberry seed oil are «super fruits» of the Arctic — containing high levels of antioxidants, as well as Vitamins A, C & E along with Omega - rich fatty acids which work together to protect, repair, and brighten skin.

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

There are more than a dozen levels — including an arctic pipeline, a Christmas tree, and a kitchen sink — for you to conquer.

Spotted throughout each world is Funky Kong's shack, where he'll sell you special power - ups you can take into levels to help you survive the arctic onslaught.

Among promises are levels ten times bigger than those seen in Killzone 2 and varied environments (toxic nuclear wastelands, a lethal alien jungle, bitter arctic conditions, «take the battle into space»), each of which feature «a distinct gameplay style for you to master».

Spotted throughout each world is Funky Kong's shack, where he'll sell you special power - ups you can take into levels to help you survive the arctic onslaught.

Each level in the game features different background graphics that range from arctic ice to forested mountains, but these are just window dressing.

The worst «puzzle» in the entire game takes place during a level set in the arctic, where an otherwise featureless path is littered with tripwire grenades that serve only to keep you from sprinting past the entire area.

Fight off the arctic invading Snowmads as you run, jump, roll, «pluck» and swim across six distinctly themed islands, each packed with lively levels of non-stop action and surprises.

We see that the arctic sea ice extent has increased since then, currently up around the 2004 levels, so we're told that it's not actually the area, it's the thickness and what birthday it's celebrated.

When there are alternative explanations for arctic ice melt (historical writings that suggest natural periods of very rapid decline, ever - increasing levels of soot that can cause and accelerate melting), how can you be so certain that the cause is CO2 - induced?

For other indicators — glacial retreat, sea level, arctic ice extent, etc. — the data is equally noisy, and it is difficult having a sensible discussion without the inevitable cherry - picking on both sides of the argument.

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..

I will be interested, this summer, to see when Kim goes from «The arctic is not melting, see and the seas are cooling» to «It doesn't matter it won't raise sea levels anyway».

Under this scenario, most of the clathrate deposits in the arctic (both tundra and shallow continental shelf deposits) could be released into the atmosphere in a fairly short period of time (less than a century), implying a rate of outgassing that makes 100 times present estimated levels a vast underforecast.

Given Eli's preponderance for all things arctic and where we once had lots more ice, the choice looks easy... except I think it's probably Sandy related and so will plump for no. 2: Sandy and Sea Level Rise.

Re: Raven (# 411), Arctic warming in the 1930s was something they never did explain, and I note that arctic sea ice was hitting low levels in the early 1040s as well.

Canadian Ice Service, 4.7, Multiple Methods As with CIS contributions in June 2009, 2010, and 2011, the 2012 forecast was derived using a combination of three methods: 1) a qualitative heuristic method based on observed end - of - winter arctic ice thicknesses and extents, as well as an examination of Surface Air Temperature (SAT), Sea Level Pressure (SLP) and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) an experimental Optimal Filtering Based (OFB) Model, which uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate NSIDC's September Arctic Ice Extent time series into the future; and 3) an experimental Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predictors.

Yes, to get a really good tropical storm, you need tropical warm waters and an arctic airflow above it, giving a huge temperature gradient in the atmosphere (low level warm air and freezing air above).

Chris V. CO2 goes up, temp goes down, oceans cool, sea levels decrease, arctic sea ice is within 1979 -2000 mean, AGW theory of catastrophic warming is B U S T... Even the fraudulent manipulation of the GISS data set does not change that.

There are degrees of everyone's positions here from those who think the IPCC is wrong because it is much too conservative through those who think the IPCC got it perfectly right to those who think the arctic sea ice has recovered because the record low level is now three years old through those who believe the GHE violates the laws of thermodynamics.

For the same reasons they have set up the Argo buoys and have just convened a working party to examine arctic ice levels to 1870.

We interpret the split of 2013 Outlooks above and below the 4.1 level to different interpretations of the guiding physics: those who considered that observed sea ice extent in 2012 being well below the 4.1 level indicates a shift in arctic conditions, especially with regard to reduced sea ice thickness and increased sea ice mobility; and those who have estimates above 4.1 who support a return to the longer - term downward trend line (1979 - 2007).

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.

We interpret the split of 2013 Outlooks above and below the 4.1 median to different interpretations of the guiding physics: those who considered that observed sea ice extent in 2012 being well below the 4.1 level indicates a shift in arctic conditions, especially with regard to reduced sea ice thickness and increased sea ice mobility; and those with estimates above 4.1 who support a return to the longer - term downward trend line (1979 - 2007).

As for global warming advocates, we have been warned for decades that the arctic would be ice free and sea levels up astronomically and no snow by now et al..

Most things point to global warming such as melting ice in the arctic and antarctic continent, global sea level rise, and global temperatures.

We have diminishing levels of arctic sea ice.

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We know that sea level is rising at between 2.5 mm and 3 mm per decade - which is a nonissue - so what is the net problem with less ice in the arctic?

And one more thing, There is a historical correlation between sea level and an ice free arctic.

The last time the arctic was ice free, sea level was significantly higher.

John: I understand that this ice is not in the arctic and it will have no impact on sea level or the good burghers of Tuvalu.

The decrease in albedo that accompanies the loss of sea ice is the phenom that underlies «arctic amplification» (as you point out, it has nothing directly to do with sea level rise).

considering solar activity HAs indeed flatlined, it seems odd there is no associated increase in arctic sea ice levels.

Episode 2: Last Hours — how methane release melts the arctic, which triggers sea level rise and extreme climate events.

And remember, the satellite data are one small part of a vast amount of data that overwhelmingly show our planet is warming up: retreating glaciers, huge amounts of ice melting at both poles, the «death spiral» of arctic ice every year at the summer minimum over time, earlier annual starts of warm weather and later starts of cold weather, warming oceans, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, more extreme weather, changing weather patterns overall, earlier snow melts, and lower snow cover in the spring...

Agreed this is problem in arctic due to coastal destruction from increased wave action (independent of global sea level rise)

Sea level rise flooding New York in 20 years (Hansen, 1988), the arctic ice disappearing in 5 years?

A classic case in point was the discovery that field observations of the loss of arctic sea ice showed that by 2007 it had advanced to a level predicted by the mean of models of that loss as occurring in the 2100s, while that mean was used as the consensus projection in AR4.