Sentences with phrase «ice declined further»

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However, this year's ice cover remains far below the 1981 - 2010 average, indicating an ongoing, long - term decline of ice because of warming temperatures, according to scientists.

Schweitzer decline to discuss DNA because she does not work with it, but DNA is far less stable than proteins so is usually broken into fragments, even in tissue that has been frozen since the ice age.

Rapid Arctic sea - ice decline: Summer - time melting of Arctic sea - ice has accelerated far beyond the expectations of climate models.

Probably not from Arctic sea ice cover reduction either, as the ice cover in the late 60s, begin 70s doesn't show a decline (as far as reliable in the pre-satellite era).

Furthermore, Prof. Slingo rejected data which shows a decline in Arctic sea ice volume of 75 % and also rejected the possibility that further decreases may cause an immediate collapse of ice cover.

Rapid Arctic sea ice decline: Summertime melting of Arctic sea ice has accelerated far beyond the expectations of climate models.

Chip — As far as I can tell from Recent NSIDC Data, the models appear to have overestimated rather than underestimated sea ice decline, since recent September value exceed 4 million square kilometers.

The article, as far as I can tell, therefore seriously overstates the impact of the divergence between the modeled and observed sea ice decline.

NASA satellite data reveals how this year's minimum sea ice extent, reached on Sept. 9 as depicted here, declined to a level far smaller than the 30 - year average (in yellow) and opened up Northwest Passage shipping lanes (in red).

In a belated Christmas present, Crockford provided this December 26 posting that further deflates the already collapsing narrative about the non-existent «crisis» of declining arctic sea ice: «Polar bear habitat — more Arctic sea ice in Canada this week than in early 1970s.»

Human - caused global warming contributes to the summer Greenland warming (Figure 3), which causes snow to melt earlier, which causes decreased local albedo, which contributes to record Greeland ice sheet decline, which further decreases local albedo, which in turn contributes to the Arctic sea ice decline.

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.

And the decline has accelerated, becoming far more dramatic, since about the year 2000, leading to annual average sea ice loss of around three million square kilometers.

As sea ice declines, it becomes thinner, with less ice build - up over multiple years, and therefore more vulnerable to further melting.15 Models that best match historical trends project northern waters that are virtually ice - free by late summer by the 2030s.25, 26,12 Within the general downward trend in sea ice, there will be time periods with both rapid ice loss and temporary recovery, 27 making it challenging to predict short - term changes in ice conditions.

rises, to the cold pdo / more la ninas, no further ocean heat content rise, to antarctica sea ice expansions, while the arctic sea ice is no longer on the decline, to arctic temp.

Dekker (Public), 4.60, (4.15 - 5.05 standard deviation range), Statistical Arctic sea ice decline has global implications for Northern Hemisphere weather patterns and Arctic eco systems and wild life alike, and thus it is concerning that our global climate models so far appear to underestimate the observed rate of decline based on albedo amplification of sea ice alone.

^ ^ ^ ^ data showing 1.0 C / decade rate of decline in lower troposphere temperature since 2010 — I'm not making it up — global average temperature has been dropping like a stone since 2010 — in fact that rate of decline is itself alarming if it continues for long — it had better be a freak happenstance of back - to - back to La Ninas because a repeat of the Little Ice Age will have a far higher toll in absolute number of lives lost compared to the last one.

As far as current global observations are concerned, Hansen cites both the decline of Arctic sea ice and the worldwide retreat of mountain glaciers as causes for major concern.

Sadly, the last 35MA track record makes the next ice age likely, and the gradual 10,0000 year decline to the descent to a deep freeze not too far into the future.

For example, a 2012 study published in Environmental Research Letters estimated that only 5 to 30 percent of the Arctic sea ice decline from 1979 to 2010 could be attributed to natural cycles, and even more is human - caused if we extend the analysis as far back as the 1950s, because the influences of natural cycles tend to average out to zero over time.

«The trend in sea ice decline, lack of winter recovery, early onset of spring melting, and warmer - than - average temperatures suggest a system that is trapped in a loop of positive feedbacks, in which responses to inputs into the system cause it to shift even further away from normal.

Serreze explained that as sea ice declines because of warmer temperatures, the loss of ice is likely to lead to still - further ice losses.

Secretary Salazar has so far defended the Bush - era «threatened» designation, claiming that threats to the species are only of concern in the future — notwithstanding the fact that polar bears are already drowning and starving as a result of sea - ice loss, with many populations declining.

In addition, sea ice remains much thinner than in the past, and so is more vulnerable to further decline.

[Response: The long term decline in Arctic sea ice is by far the more powerful test.

sea ice remains much thinner than in the past, and so is more vulnerable to further decline.