Sentences with phrase «ice decline dating»

Not exact matches

Google's Andy Rubin also confirmed that previous Nexus devices would also receive Ice Cream Sandwich but declined to elaborate on specific launch dates, only stating that they would roll out weeks after the launch of the Galaxy Nexus.

Just because we don't have all the information on how much more ice the Arctic had on previous dates, doesn't make this decline any less important.

Nearly all studies to date published in the peer - reviewed literature agree that summer Arctic sea ice extent is rapidly declining and that, if heat - trapping gas concentrations continue to rise, an essentially ice - free summer Arctic ocean will be realized before mid-century.

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

From a report described on the IPY (International Polar Year) site dated 2/25/09: «Snow and ice are declining in both polar regions, affecting human livelihoods as well as local plant and animal life in the Arctic, as well as global ocean and atmospheric circulation and sea level.»