Sentences with phrase «called polar warming»

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The researchers identified several key circulation patterns that affected the winter temperatures from 1979 to 2013, particularly the Arctic Oscillation (a climate pattern that circulates around the Arctic Ocean and tends to confine colder air to the polar latitudes) and a second pattern they call Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia (WACE), which they found correlates to sea ice loss as well as to particularly strong winters.

It's called the polar jet stream, and as it writhes eastward across the North American continent, it can bring storms in its wake or herald an unseasonable change in temperature — north of the jet stream lies cold, Arctic air, while to its south are warmer conditions.

Reading Robert Pondiscio's recent article («The Left's drive to push conservatives out of education reform») calls to mind Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» and its powerful image of a polar bear drifting helplessly on a shrinking sheet of ice in a warming sea.

The was a large so - called blocking high in North Atlantic that led to the polar outbreaks into Europe and so that is where the cold air went, making it warmer in behind.

«Borehole temperatures in the ice sheets spanning the last 6000 years show Antarctica repeatedly warming when Greenland cooled, and vice versa... The phenomena has been called the polar see - saw... Attempts to account for it have included the hypothesis of a south - flowing warm ocean current with a built in time lag... There is (however) no significant delay in the Anarctica climate anomaly...

Kassie Siegel, the lawyer for the Center for Biological Diversity, a group based in Arizona that took the lead in the lawsuit calling on the department to list the polar bear, added, «I don't see how even this administration can write this proposal without acknowledging that the primary threat to polar bears is global warming and without acknowledging the science of global warming.»

The image of melting glaciers in the Himalayas has been called one of the two principal «icons» of global warming alarmism, along with polar bears, who have been declared a «threatened» species despite the fact that their numbers are growing.

The boundary between the cold polar air and the warm tropical air is called the Polar Front.