Sentences with phrase «global sea ice coverage»

The point is that, objectively speaking, based on actual data, not model data or nursery stories, the total global sea ice coverage is currently above average.

The extent of global sea ice coverage reached its smallest area ever recorded in 2016, new data show.

Not exact matches

-- Susan Solomon, Nature The Long Thaw is written for anyone who wishes to know what cutting - edge science tells us about the modern issue of global warming and its effects on the pathways of atmospheric chemistry, as well as global and regional temperatures, rainfall, sea level, Arctic sea - ice coverage, melting of the continental ice sheets, cyclonic storm frequency and intensity and ocean acidification.

However, scientists have cautioned that while Arctic sea ice coverage expanded this year, one year is not enough to say the global warming has stopped.

Climate scientists had claimed that sea ice coverage in the Bering Sea would shrink due to global warming and that the warmer waters would be less productive for marine lisea ice coverage in the Bering Sea would shrink due to global warming and that the warmer waters would be less productive for marine liSea would shrink due to global warming and that the warmer waters would be less productive for marine life.

Although there is significant season - to - season and year - to - year variability of world sea - ice coverage, there is no dramatic trend in global sea - ice loss.

Some have claimed it was complete global coverage of sea, though it seems me more would claim there remained corridor of tropical ocean which remain ice free.

The reason it is a mystery is because that increase in sea ice coverage is contrary to the theory of global warming.

Slate's Phil Plait was responsibly reserved in his coverage, emphasizing that although one of the press releases used the word «collapse,» the melting of this particular glacier — which by itself contains enough ice to raise global seas by three feet — is a process that will take centuries, if not longer, to play out.

Albedo should increase in response to very low solar conditions which should result in an increase in major volcanic activity, increase in global cloud coverage and sea ice / snow coverage.

In addition, a study commissioned by Canada's Fisheries and Oceans Department examined the relationship between air temperature and sea ice coverage, concluding, «the possible impact of global warming appears to play a minor role in changes to Arctic sea ice.»

To expand the coverage of global gridded reanalyses, the 20th Century Reanalysis Project is an effort led by PSD and the CIRES at the University of Colorado to produce a reanalysis dataset spanning the entire twentieth century, assimilating only surface observations of synoptic pressure, monthly sea surface temperature and sea ice distribution.

In a February report, Dr. Parkinson said, «If trends toward shortened sea ice seasons and lesser sea ice coverage continue, this could entail major consequences to the polar and perhaps global climate, and to the lifestyles and survivability of selected Arctic plant and animal species.»

That might have changed this week with the coverage of announcement of «Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2 °C Global Warming is Highly Dangerous» by James Hansen and 16 other eminent scientists.