Sentences with phrase «ice cap shrinking»

Getting back to the New York Times article, so why is the Arctic ice cap shrinking if air temperatures aren't really warming in any significant way?

The bottom line is that climatic change effects are being experienced RIGHT NOW; some are subtle while others are more overt, like glacial retreat, an increase in the severity and unpredictability of weather phenomena, or the North Polar ice cap shrinking to its lowest surface area in history.

A NASA team reports today in Science that the edges of the Northern Hemisphere's biggest ice cap shrank markedly between 1993 and 1998.

«As more studies are done in Iceland, with better equipment (and hence better data), I would not be surprised to see more robust and convincing evidence of increases in magma production and / or eruptions in Iceland as the current ice caps shrink further.

Over all, open water has spread in the Arctic this summer nearly as much as it did last summer, when polar experts said the ice cap shrank far more than had been measured since satellites started scanning the region 30 years ago — and probably more than it had shrunk in a century or more.

(Although tundra should persist in the Arctic archipelago and may expand in Greenland as the ice cap shrinks.)

With ice caps shrinking and global temperatures on the rise, animals who live in the Arctic Circle are at increasing risk.

As the Arctic ice cap shrinks during the coming decades, the chemistry of the polar troposphere should also change.

Berthier and his co-authors recently reported that Cook Ice Cap shrank at 2.4 km2 / yr, half a percent per year, between 1963 and 2001.

The changes in the Arctic could spur new geopolitical tension in the region, since at least a trillion dollars» worth of fossil fuels will become more accessible as the ice cap shrinks.

In the eight years of the Bush presidency, the world saw the Arctic ice cap shrink to a record Summer low, the relentless rise of greenhouse gas emissions, and warnings from scientists shift from urgent to panicky.

Not exact matches

The Mars Orbiter Camera tracked the changing seasons as the first chill of winter gripped the Northern hemisphere and warm spring winds began shrinking the Southern ice cap.

It was early surmised that Martian caps must be composed of ice and snow, a theory which Prof. Lowell substantiates by pointing out that as the Martian cap melts it is surrounded by a deep blue band, which keeps pace with the shrinking cap and is clearly the product of its disintegration.

The results — along with a recent Dartmouth - led study that found air temperature also likely influenced the fluctuating size of South America's Quelccaya Ice Cap over the past millennium — support many scientists» suspicions that today's tropical glaciers are rapidly shrinking primarily because of a warming climate rather than declining snowfall or other factors.

As the ice - breaking feedback loop accelerates in years to come, more and more towering waves are likely to batter the shrinking ice cap.

Over its 10 - year life span, the spacecraft observed the Martian surface and atmosphere repeatedly, exposing details — like the shrinking carbon dioxide ice cap on the south pole — that would have been lost to onetime measurements.

Treated separately, the two sets of data do not show a statistically significant decrease in the extent of Antarctic ice, although they do show that the Arctic cap is shrinking.

Besides shrinking in extent, the sea ice cap is also thinning and becoming more vulnerable to the action of ocean waters, winds and warmer temperatures.

Satellite data clearly shows the summer ice cap has been shrinking since the late 1970s.

* The late - summer polar ice cap, already at historic lows today, would shrink only another quarter and hold steady by century's end, instead of melting by more than three - quarters with no let - up in sight.

A critical piece of evidence from almost fifty scientific expeditions to seven shrinking tropical ice - caps points to global warming as the reason for their decline.

But the ice - cap of the Cordillera Blanca, long a supply of water for the Chavimochic irrigation project, has shrunk 40 % since 1970 and is retreating at an ever - faster rate.

But contrarians either wish to have stations eliminated (even though we can get useful information from them by correcting the data using well established statistical methods and closing stations would reduce the accuracy of our temperature estimates) or what is more likely, simply wish to change the focus from the well - established rise in temperatures (by means of many independent lines of investigation including the shrinking of the Arctic Ice Cap) to the fact that some stations are not ideal in order to discredit the science which has established that climate change is taking place and that it threatens countless lives.

Nevertheless, the record - low sea ice concentration is consistent with a shrinking ice - cap due to a warming.

The results revealed that the world's glaciers and ice caps — defined as all land - based ice except the mighty Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets — began to shrink far more quickly in 2001.

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.

Land ice — glaciers, ice caps, and ice sheets — is shrinking at a faster rate in response to rising temperatures, adding water to the world's oceans.

In its article entitled, «As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound,» the Times reported that a shrinking summer time Arctic ice cap is spurring «nothing less than a great rush for virgin territory and natural resources worth hundreds of billions of dollars.&raqIce Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound,» the Times reported that a shrinking summer time Arctic ice cap is spurring «nothing less than a great rush for virgin territory and natural resources worth hundreds of billions of dollars.&raqice cap is spurring «nothing less than a great rush for virgin territory and natural resources worth hundreds of billions of dollars.»

Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.

As IPCC AR4 reports «Most mountain glaciers and ice caps have been shrinking, with the retreat probably having started about 1850 [NB: the end of the «little ice age»].

It could take decades or centuries, but change will be locked in by a 3C temperature rise, which would extensively melt ice caps, shrink glaciers and thermally expand the oceans so many current coastlines and low - lying plains would be under sea level.

Bugs in software are one thing, but it is undoubtable that our ice - caps are glacial deposits are shrinking, and that the oceans are getting warmer.

This appears to be the case; the northern ice cap is shrinking, and the Northwest Passage has become navigable at least part of the year — eat your hearts out, Frobisher, Cabot, Baffin.

Climate change is already shrinking glaciers and ice caps, altering the availability of fresh water.

So NSIDC's Walt Meier offers another way to understand the shrinking ice cap.

The Arctic (North Pole) has shown the most rapid rate of warming, with dramatic effects such as shrinking of this region's glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and permafrost.

In only 20 times the length of time since the Battle of Hastings, the Polar Ice Cap has shrunk from London to the other side of Greenland.

The Arctic ice cap grows each winter when there's less sunlight, and shrinks each summer when days are longer, reaching its lowest point of the year in September.

NEW YORK — Arctic sea - ice extent shrank to an unprecedented low this summer, part of a long - term decline in the icy white cap over the far northern ocean.

Hot topic: The plight of polar bears captures the hearts of many, but are the ice caps still shrinking?

And so the Arctic ice Cap has shrunk dramatically in summer over the past decase.

The ice cap is shrinking.

Also, the «response time» of glaciers reflect the past climate, but «teasing out the drivers of forces behind the observed changes, such as, shrinking of Quelccaya Ice Cap, are complex,» he says.

Overall, the Arctic's sea ice cap has shrunk by nearly a third since 1979, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centice cap has shrunk by nearly a third since 1979, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data CentIce Data Centre.

«Overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is heating the planet, shrinking the Arctic ice cap, melting glaciers and raising sea levels.

Among Hayden's assertions were that: «Yes, the polar ice caps are shrinking... on Mars.»

He notes that evidence such as shrinking ice caps, rising oceans, and rising temperatures are seen by satellites.

According to the report, polar ice caps are melting, water supplies around the world are shrinking, [continue reading...]

The North Pole's shrinking ice cap has already affected some coastal cities in Alaska, Meier said.

But while Antarctica's sea ice soars, the Arctic ice cap is still shrinking, making scientists ponder over the effects of global warming, a new report released Tuesday imparts.