Sentences with phrase «how polar»

They want publicity but they certainly don't want the public to realize how poor were their previous pessimistic predictions regarding how polar bears would respond to low summer sea ice; or notice how nearly all polar bear photos published in recent years show fat healthy animals; or observe that healthy triplet cubs (a rare phenomenon that supposedly no longer exists in Western Hudson Bay, where they used to be common) have been photographed in Western Hudson Bay (2017), Southern Beaufort Sea (2016) and the Chukchi Sea.
Maybe Al Gore, whose credibility is on very thin ice, can explain how polar bears survived the 1817 conditions or any of the other variations of weather and ice in the historic record.
It's rare that an advertisement gets deemed controversial because it plays into a cliche, but that's exactly what has happened with Nissan's new TV ad for it's all - electric LEAF: The spot has sent a ripple through blogosphere by featuring the (seemingly) age - old story about how polar bears are losing their habitat to a melting Arctic as a result of climate change.
Such information is important for an assessment of how polar bears will be able to cope with the predicted changes of their main habitat: the Arctic sea ice.
This genome would not only provide excellent markers to study extant polar bear populations but could also provide clues as to how polar bears rapidly evolved and subsequently survived through the last interglacial period.
So various tame conservation biologists came up with all sorts of nonsense about how polar bear populations were dwindling and how the melting of the ice floes would jeopardize their ability to feed themselves etc..
«This is about how polar bears were used to draw attention to climate change.
It took lawsuits and petitioning efforts by the Center for Biological Diversity, NRDC, Greenpeace, and other organizations to overcome the resistance to this listing, which would have profound implications on how polar bear habitat is used — that is, whether its arctic territory would become territory of oil companies as well.
Still others assert that there is too much uncertainty to project how polar bears will fare in the future.
For example, Gavin's Pussycat has already pointed out that in their analysis they did not take into proper account how polar amplification results in larger swings in temperature at higher latitudes — and that when estimating temperature variation at lower latitudes on the basis of proxies at higher latitudes one has to scale down the variation, that is recognize that the swings in temperature will be smaller at those lower latitudes.
This picture is, according to the article, part of a series that are «the first graphic images of how the polar ice sheets are retreating in the summer».
It is unknown whether the ecosystem will return to the pattern of decadal - scale change exhibited in previous decades, or how polar bears and seals will respond to ecological changes in the future, but research on these topics is a high priority.
Defining how the terrestrial diet might have changed since the onset of rapid climate change is an important step in understanding how polar bears may be reacting to climate change.
The original article was a CBC article on how the polar bears of a tiny and specific population around Hudson Bay were having troubles because of a late winter freeze.
The new plan details how polar bears become attracted to human garbage when it's hungry.
How the polar bears are threatened with extinction.
The new work, led by Rockwell and Linda Gormezano, a postdoctoral researcher in the Museum's Division of Vertebrate Zoology, examines how polar bears might compensate for energy deficits from decreasing seal - hunting opportunities.
NASA's Operation IceBridge has been studying how polar ice has evolved over the past nine years and is currently flying a set of nine - hour research flights over West Antarctica to monitor ice loss aboard a retrofitted 1966 Lockheed P - 3 aircraft.
As far as I know there are no documented interactions between the two species in western Hudson Bay yet, but given the new information on how polar bears evolved and may have interacted with grizzlies, it will be especially interesting to see how this all plays out as climate induced changes in distribution and behavior cause the two species to interact more frequently.
Do we know or even have the vaintest idea how polar bears experience climate and climate change?
An international team of researchers has identified the genetic mutations which allowed microalgae (phytoplankton) from the Southern Ocean to adapt to extreme and highly variable climates — a step towards understanding how polar organisms are impacted by climate change.
How this polar ice may have found its way to Mercury in the first place remains an open question, Deutsch says.
Analyses of images from the New Horizon mission and modelling of the evolution of the ice cap help to explain how this polar feature was formed.
For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has produced unprecedented three - dimensional views of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, providing scientists with valuable data on how polar ice is changing in a warming world.
With more genomes in hand, researchers are teasing out when and how polar bears came to be so successful in such a harsh habitat.
«The past behavior and dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheets are among the most important open questions in the scientific understanding of how the polar regions help to regulate global climate,» said Jennifer Burns, director of the NSF Antarctic Integrated Science System Program.
Who knows how a polar bear raised as a softie takes things?
Above all, the new insights into the juvenile fish under the ice are important because it's still impossible to say how polar cod populations will change in the face of climate change.
Several of the PlioMIP2 research groups are modeling how the polar ice sheets responded in the heat of the Pliocene.
She hoped that sequencing and analyzing the DNA in these ancient samples would offer new information about how polar bears evolved.
As a warming climate continues to accelerate the summer ice melts, it is important to understand how polar bears are — or are not — adapting to even more extreme food shortages.

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That lawyer guy from the Sierra Club who got chewed on by the polar bear last week on his trip to the North is probably thinking just how lucky the helicopter runs on gas (made from oil) and not solar,.............
The cultures of these two white shoe firms are polar opposites; one is arrogant, the other is really, really super-arrogant... I wonder how they'll co-exist...
Oh yeah, when Noah (being well over 500 years old) has his ship run aground on top of Ararat, how exactly does he then get all the marsupials back to Australia, all the grizzlies back to Western North America, all the polar bears back to the North Pole, all the anacondas back to South America, all the emperor penguins back to Antarctica, etc, etc, etc?
For my own part, I can not imagine how di - polar theology could be genuinely Christian so long as it places christology and eschatology at the periphery of faith and understanding, nor can I see how it could ever gain real relevance or power so long as it continues to be unable either to address us or to speak in terms of the imagination.
I always find it interesting to see how so many mock «Fox News»... Nice to know that I can always bounce over to «CNN» and get a completely polar point of view.
Do you agree that it is all about how you want to look at the evidence and everything is polar?
Ecumenism is now in the hands of the evangelical and Pentecostal movement on the one hand and the Roman Catholic and Orthodox on the other, the polar opposites of the mainline folks, yet there is a measure of agreement on where and how the apostolic tradition is to be located and retrieved in the affirmations regarding the Trinity, or that Jesus Christ is true god and true man.
Especially the part where Noah builds a boat 300 cubits (450 feet) long and manages to collect 2 of each type of animal in the world (what part of science showed how he traveled to the arctic to collect polar bears, and Australia to collect all manner of marsupials (Giant hoverdcraft, was it?)
My main issue is with how he will fit into the Arsenal system, which if we're honest is just about the polar opposite of Leicester's «soak up the pressure and break» technique.
This month, momstown's theme is Polar Animals, so to help remember how tiny our little one's toes are, we made some footprints to look like polar animals.
What I find amazing is how two differing groups (like Democrats and Republicans) speaking on one common topic can shape questions and extract data to support their polar opposite views.
How can the numbers really be reflective of who the polar or rather who the constituents there.
How far the polar spheres of action overlap it is not possible at present to tell, as the canals at the last opposition were visible only to 35 degrees south latitude.
Morris uses the information she gathers on these trips to check the accuracy of data collected by a European satellite, Cryosat - 2, that tracks changes in the thickness of polar ice — information that tells scientists how quickly that ice is thawing.
So it's some measure of how stoked I am about reporting on polar science that I would happily sign up for such a daunting excursion to cover field research.
Oceanography postgraduates, for example, might study how coastal dynamics affect amphibious warfare, or how decreasing polar sea ice might influence global climate patterns.
Scientists at UCL have observed how a widespread polar wind is driving gas from the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan.
How do polar research and exploration support astrobiology and planetary science?
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