Sentences with phrase «ice at the poles»

In the past week, a chart with a stark depiction of depleted sea ice at both poles attracted attention online.

The lack of ice at the pole is not necessarily related to global warming.

But even taking the long view, the trends are towards less and less ice at the poles.

Until the late 1990s, researchers generally considered ice at both poles to be more or less sterile environments.

The planet developed permanent ice at the poles when GHG / C02 levels dropped low enough due to weathering when India met Asia or so the present level of knowledge appears to be telling us.

Linder has a background in oceanography and focuses on the Arctic Ocean — and if you follow environmental news at all, you'll know that if there's a single place on earth that tells us the impact our actions have on the planet, it's the ocean and the waters and ice at the poles in particular.

On Mr. Will's defense of his accuracy, particularly on trends in sea ice at both poles as they related to global warming, it's worth pointing out a few things.

At the same time that record heat is occurring in the polar regions and elsewhere, snow is forecasted (scheduled) to fall as far south as Chihuahua, Mexico (2017 also saw record low ice at BOTH poles).

As one of the world's leading polar scientists with more than 47 years» experience of visiting and measuring ice at the poles, he provided a lucid and sobering explanation of the impact of global warming on the poles, and the way in which the disappearance of polar ice is itself hastening global warming, and contributing to extreme weather events such as the March blizzards preventing some people attending the conference.

More warming leads to a lot of feed - backs, some feed - backs lead to more CO2 (ie wildfires) and some leads to lower albedo (ie decreasing ice at the poles).

I was thnking in the era more of when ice ages have occured and when there has been permenent ice at the poles.

«During the middle Miocene, an [epoch] in Earth's history when carbon dioxide levels were sustained at values similar to what they are today [330 to 500 ppm], the planet was much warmer, sea level was higher, there was substantially less ice at the poles, and the distribution of rainfall was very different.»

His «we do not know of a time with permanent ice at the poles and CO2 above 1000pmmv» (except, of course, prior to the big thaw in snowball Earth), and the present rate of increase of atmospheric CO2 being c. 10x greater than previous mass extinctions as far as we know (albeit the total mass being less) are deeply worrying.

This follows the amount of sea ice at both poles, Arctic and Antarctic.

Aside from the astounding notion that the solar system's hottest planet could have ice at the poles, the find would yield a great deal of data about the action of comets as the solar system's water - ferrying bucket brigade.

The reason: The radar signals of the altimeter satellites that have been surveying the surfaces of the earth and oceans for more than two decades are reflected by the ice at the poles.

It's deep alien ocean underneath the surface ice is reminiscent of our own planet, and since our oceans and seas are teeming with life, even beneath the ice at the poles, could Europa's ocean also harbor life of some kind?

It's fascinating to know that when the asteroid struck Earth, our planet was already in a hot time, with no ice at the poles.

This figures also shows that the climate (average global temperature) is much more variable when there is ice at the poles than when the poles are ice free.

That's melting the ice at both poles, increasing sea levels.

This in turn will raise the temperature even more and eventually (although the more extreme AGW supporters see this as happening soon) you will hit tipping points where permafrost starts to melt, bogs start to warm and all of these give up more and more greenhouse gases causing a runaway greenhouse effect which will raise the temperature even more, melt the ice at the poles and raise the ocean levels by 20 to 30 feet.

When the Earth is in its «Ice House» climate mode, there is ice at the poles.

Earth's climate has varied widely over its history, from ice ages characterised by large ice sheets covering many land areas, to warm periods with no ice at the poles.

The 48 of the US are headed back toward record heat as the geoengineers will do all they can to chemically cool the Arctic in their ever more desperate attempt to hide the implosion of the ice at the poles.

So melting the ice at the poles would only move mass vertically, or pretty much vertically, in relation to the axis and would have little effect on the rotational speed.

NASA's Operation IceBridge is a six - year mission to survey land and sea ice at the poles.

More Rain, Less Rain, No Snow, More Snow, Ice at the poles is due to a temperature increase, Less ice at the poles is due to temperature increase, Sea Surface Temperature would be greater but 700 + meters ate it all... Ad Infinitum.

Sea ice at both poles has been expected to decline as the planet heats up from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.