Sentences with phrase «for arctic climates»

Not exact matches

The team's research showed that Vikings initially caught cod in the arctic waters off Norway's Lofoten Islands, whose climate allows for preservation through air drying, rather than more expensive salting.

Warming of arctic soils and thawing of permafrost thus can have substantial consequences for the global climate, as the large C and N stores could be released to the atmosphere as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).

The study has important implications for predicting which arctic plant species will dominate as the climate warms, as well as how much carbon tundra ecosystems can store.

In «A Phoenix Flies to Mars», Andrew Fazekas, the Canadian Editor for Science's Next Wave, writes about the NASA Phoenix polar lander, and Canada's contribution to the project: a sophisticated meteorological station developed by a team of Canadian scientists and engineers that will analyze Mars» arctic climate.

With renewed interest in arctic oil and gas development and recognition that the polar regions are early warning systems for climate change, both foreign and Canadian researchers once again are focusing on the Arctic.

The intent is not to make perfect copies of extinct Woolly Mammoths, but to focus on the mammoth adaptations needed for Asian elephants to thrive in the cold climate of the arctic.

For the Arctic Climate - driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes is at the PNAS site.

Now the question is, can the real climate scientists come forward and present the truth about global warming, or are we in for more ridiculous predictions about an ice free arctic by 2013 and the extinction of polar bears?

Her research suggests that the Putin administration welcomes climate change as beneficial for Russia, and foresees increased development in Siberia and along the shores of the arctic.

For the Arctic Climate - driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes is at the PNAS site.

The ACIA is the first comprehensively researched, fully referenced, and independently reviewed evaluation of arctic climate change and its impacts for the region and for the world.

As for «melting in the arctic, droughts, shifting climate zones, increased ocean temps and sea level rise», these things have always happened and always will happen, as will their opposites.

As for your V&V discussion, I don't see the relevance of it in this talk, but in the context of physical science of climate change we have overwhelming evidence of model usefulness and verification (water vapor feedback, simulating the Pinatubo eruption effects, ocean heat content changes, stratospheric cooling, arctic amplification, etc).

See millions, billions, trillions traded for pigs, pokes, and lies... starving polar bears straight from the sands of a sinking arctic... snarling snow leopards swept away by melting glaciers... gasping Gurkhas in search of water... coastal residents on stilts... climate grifters juggling semi-intelligent humans... grim reapers galloping the streets... massive throngs wandering aimlessly... You there in the back!

It is intellectually dishonest to devote several pages to cherry - picking studies that disagree with the IPCC consensus on net health effects because you don't like its scientific conclusion, while then devoting several pages to hiding behind [a misstatement of] the U.N. consensus on sea level rise because you know a lot reasonable people think the U.N. wildly underestimated the upper end of the range and you want to attack Al Gore for worrying about 20 - foot sea level rise.On this blog, I have tried to be clear what I believe with my earlier three - part series: Since sea level, arctic ice, and most other climate change indicators have been changing faster than most IPCC models projected and since the IPCC neglects key amplifying carbon cycle feedbacks, the IPCC reports almost certainly underestimate future climate impacts.

For the article I am writing on the arctic between 1920 and 1949 two climate scientists have sent me interesting - but not earth shattering - information.

Insane Arctic Heat right now and the forecast on Climate Reanalyzer is for the arctic to hit 7 plus C in the coming days.

The two - day FAMOS workshop will include sessions on 2017 sea ice highlights and sea ice / ocean predictions, reports of working groups conducting collaborative projects, large - scale arctic climate modeling (ice - ocean, regional coupled, global coupled), small (eddies) and very small (mixing) processes and their representation and / or parameterization in models, and new hypotheses, data sets, intriguing findings, proposals for new experiments and plans for 2018 FAMOS special volume of publications.

While might be entertaining to watch Bill Nye and others discuss climate change / global warming / vanishing arctic ice with those who choose to believe in alternate realities, an unfortunate primary consequence is the illusion that there is any room for «Debate» on basic presumptions.

The Polar Vortex shifts due to major warming in the arctic polar region has been established climate science for over a decade now.

The range of 1.4 °C to 4.3 °C in the committed warming overlaps and surpasses the currently perceived threshold range of 1 °C to 3 °C for dangerous anthropogenic interference with many of the climate - tipping elements such as the summer arctic sea ice, Himalayan - Tibetan glaciers, and the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Climate Change Models Will Need Revision So what that means is basically that a lot more climate change causing gases will be released into the atmosphere as the arctic warms and the permafrost melts than we've accounted for Climate Change Models Will Need Revision So what that means is basically that a lot more climate change causing gases will be released into the atmosphere as the arctic warms and the permafrost melts than we've accounted for climate change causing gases will be released into the atmosphere as the arctic warms and the permafrost melts than we've accounted for before.

An integrated ice - atmosphere - ocean monitoring and forecasting system designed for observing, understanding, and quantifying arctic climate changes http://www.damocles-eu.org/

The report, the most precise yet thanks to advances in scientific monitoring, confirms that climate change impacts are outpacing previous projections for ocean warming, the rate of glacial ice melt in the arctic, and sea level rise.

Excellent command of standard engineering practices for oil, gas and subsea pipelines within harsh arctic climates.