Sentences with phrase «ice coverage seem»

Something about the ice ages probably stimulated the brain enlargement, but neither average temperature nor average ice coverage seem likely to be the stimulus.

Something about the ice ages probably stimulated the brain enlargement, but neither average temperature nor average ice coverage seem likely to be the stimulus.

Not exact matches

It seems clear to me that that mountain glaciers and permafrost are: 1 sensitive indicators of changes in temperature; 2 uncontaminated by urban heat islands; 3 have short response times (no problem with lagged response to Little Ice Age cooling); have wide geographical coverage (especially in remote areas).

Predictions of earlier ice - free dates so - far seem to be confined to conference presentations, media - coverage, the blogosphere, and testimony before to the UK parliament.

The «Perils of Extrapolation» of the title finally comes to rest on a discussion of «extrapolation» which explicitly names AMEG at its outset, and concludes that, «Predictions of earlier ice - free dates (he means, before 2037) so far seem to be confined to conference presentations, media - coverage, the blogosphere, and testimony before to the UK parliament.»

Morison, 5.5 (+ / - 1.0), Heuristic Judging by the NSIDC ice extent and microwave and visible imagery, the ice extent seems to be going in the - 1 sigma of recent climatology, and melt pond coverage in the central Arctic anyway seems about average for recent years.

If you'll recall from my previous post, polar bears seem to have barely survived the extensive sea ice coverage during the Last Glacial Maximum — in other words, too much ice (even over the short term) is their biggest threat.

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.

It seems to me the variables effecting the amount or coverage of sea ice, be it old vr.