Sentences with phrase «disappearing polar ice»

Polar bears are being driven from their usual habitats on the disappearing polar ice at the same time that grizzlies are moving farther north because of global warming, resulting in cross-breeding.

And especially now with human development and climate change, the world is being altered at an incredible pace — from rising seas, disappearing polar ice, to our major rivers and estuaries and how they have been changed by us.

But Cvijanovic and her colleagues wanted to understand the effects of disappearing polar ice, independent of global warming.

Not exact matches

It seems that after the climate cooled during the last glacial period, disappearing habitat inland forced brown bears toward the coasts, where they encountered polar bears shifted there by British - Irish ice sheets.

As sea ice disappears, polar bears are being forced to hunt more on land, which brings them into conflict with humans and increases contact with brown bears.

As sea ice disappears, polar bear populations will crash harder than the seabirds.

As sea ice decreases dramatically across polar oceans, some scientists see a silver lining: The algal blooms that seem to thrive where ice has recently disappeared could damper climate change by trapping carbon in the deep ocean.

This disappearing ice is the very reason polar bears are now listed as an endangered species.

• The polar ice cap will completely disappear within 100 years.

Striking how this blog talks about polar bears, hurricanes, melting glaciers, melting sea ice, disappearing frogs, intelligence estimates, the snows of Kilimanjaro, drought, famine, insect infestations, too much rain, lack of rain, and who knows what else, and links it all to AGW.

The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice.

Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

So even with the Holocene climatic optimum HCO and the 1930 spike we didnâ $ ™ t see arctic sea ice disappear so thatâ $ ™ s the reason the polar bears didnâ $ ™ t go extinct even though other fauna did during the HCO.

Although the alarmist side constantly moves the goal posts [from runaway global warming, to drowning polar bears, to catastrophic Greenland and Antarctic melting, to rising sea levels, to disappearing sea ice, to «global cooling proves global warming», etc., etc.], the simple fact remains that the UN / IPCC has been consistently wrong from AR - 1 through AR - 4, and the Gore / Hansen duo has been spectacularly wrong.

Even if greenhouse gas emissions were completely stopped today, most of the world's glaciers would still disappear or dwindle to remnants by the end of this century, just from the CO2 that's already in the atmosphere, while the polar ice caps will likely keep shrinking for centuries to come.

But «this is not just about disappearing polar bears and melting ice caps,» EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said Monday morning during the rule's announcement.

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It is certainly possible and may be likely for the polar ice sheets to disappear, causing sea level rise (SLR) of 22 + / - 10 metres over coming millennia.

The New York Times has come up with a new defense against so - called climate denialists who happen to point out that most polar bear populations are steady or increasing amidst climate change: The ice hasn't disappeared as fast as we said it would.

The overall polar bear population appears stable, but disappearing sea ice in the Arctic is widely believed to pose a long - term threat to the species.

Bottom line: Barents Sea polar bears are loyal to this region because the eastern portion has the habitat they require to thrive even when sea ice cover in the western portion essentially disappears for thousands of years at a time.

«This is not just about disappearing polar bears and melting ice caps,» McCarthy said in a speech at EPA headquarters.

it's also fairly logical and rational, even for an ordinary person who isn't a scientist to understand that if polar bears need sea ice to hunt for seals and that sea ice disappears, then those polar bears are going to be in trouble

JS: And it's also fairly logical and rational, even for an ordinary person who isn't a scientist to understand that if polar bears need sea ice to hunt for seals and that sea ice disappears, then those polar bears are going to be in trouble.

Serreze says if these warmer - than - average conditions persist, the Arctic polar ice cap could disappear in late summer within a couple of decades.

They warned «sea ice has been projected to disappear in the 2030s or before» and lost sea ice was both a future and «current threat to this important habitat of the polar bear.»

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

Five years after wildlife biologist Charles Monnett's 2006 observations of dead polar bears, believed to have drowned because of disappearing Arctic ice, Interior started an investigation of Monnett's science.

Arctic ice didn't disappear, polar bears didn't die, sea level rise didn't accelerate, and there are no climate refugees from Tuvalu or Kiribati.

The seals are disappearing, and the ice is too thin to support whale hunting, and the polar bears are eating what's left of the whales.

[G] iven the rapid pace of ecological change in the Arctic, the long generation time, and the highly specialised nature of polar bears, it is unlikely that polar bears will survive as a species if the sea ice disappears completely.

Most experts, and the International Union of Conservation of Nature and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, believe that polar bears are threatened because the Arctic sea ice from which the bears hunt is disappearing due to global warming.

The best known consequence of disappearing sea ice in the Arctic is the loss of the polar bear habitat.

For support they pointed to semi-empirical studies of the way polar ice had rapidly disappeared during the warming of the 1930s.

The fact that polar ice is disappearing faster than predicted from the models along with permafrost decline and more besides seem to indicate to many climate scientists (who incidently appear profously in the Fred Pearce book — the last generation) that human induced climate change is happenning faster than can be explained by the primarily linear models.

Biologists have predicted for decades that as the ice disappears, polar bear populations will decline because they rely on the ice as a hunting platform.

As the melting of Arctic Sea ice worsens every year, polar bear hunting grounds disappear, and so does their access to food.