Sentences with phrase «ice free this summer as»

as you can see both show no death spiral, nor is the arctic going to be ice free this summer as opined back in 2007 by some of their ilk

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Research has predicted that the Arctic make experience ice - free summers as soon as 2050.

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The Best Homemade Vegan Cheese and Ice Cream Recipes by Marie Laforet focuses on this summer treat, as well as cheese, which can totally be dairy - free and delicious.

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Overland recently co-authored a study predicting an ice - free Arctic summer in the first half of this century and said he will soon be releasing additional data projecting that an area 100 miles north of Alaska will witness open water five months out of the year by 2030, as opposed to the current two months.

The data, collected by aerial survey missions flown in the Southern Hemisphere in the summer of 2014 - 2015, provide detailed topography of the perpetually ice - free region, where surprising landscape changes, such as rapid erosion along some streams, have been observed in recent years.

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As life heats up (literally if you consider that in September climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice has shrunk to its smallest surface area since 1979, and an ice - free summer in the Arctic may now happen within the next few years, not the next centu...

As a certified «Alarmist» I must predict that we will see a substantially sea ice free Arctic — next summer.

The Arctic is expected to be largely free of sea ice in late summer within the next few decades, possibly as early as the 2030s....

I'm fairly confused as to where these predictions of «NH summer free sea ice» this year are coming from.

Instead, a rather casual article in the Independent showed the latest thickness data and that quoted Mark Serreze as saying that the area around the North Pole had 50/50 odds of being completely ice free this summer, has taken off across the media.

Speed of ice loss In response to questions from the Chair, Prof. Slingo ruled out an ice - free summer by as early as 2015.

The argument at its simplest is that since there are individual model runs in the CCSM4 ensemble that are just about as bad as our current reality, we can't rule out the chance that reality will return to the CCSM4 ensemble line — i.e. the decline will slow, and the Arctic will be summer ice - free in «only» 2040 - 2050 or so.

I guess I'm still struggling to understand why MWP 1A - type speed can be safely discounted in the next 100 years, especially since (as many posters have pointed out) a sea - ice free summer is now forecast between 5 - 30 years, not 80 + as only a few years ago.

RE: In reply to the English Gentleman's (CobblyWorlds) question: «Basically I'd like to know if I am wrong to be concerned that we are likely to see changes in the UK and Europe as a result of the ice loss and high latitude warming well before the N. pole is sea - ice «free» in the summer»

As a result, without any additional greenhouse gases, the Arctic soon will be ice - free in the summer.

Basically I'd like to know if I am wrong to be concerned that we are likely to see changes in the UK and Europe as a result of the ice loss and high latitude warming well before the N. pole is sea - ice «free» in the summer.

The arctic will be ice free in summer within 5 - 6 years, progressing rapidly to all the remaining 9 months of the year as the arctic ocean continues to warm.

As I understand it, an «ice - free» summer Arctic has a specific definition, which is not 100 % water, but close.

ClimateDialogue.org will kick off with a discussion on the causes of the rapid decline of the Arctic sea ice as well as the question when the Arctic sea could be ice - free during the summer months.

Meanwhile, the Arctic ice sheet is expanding quickly, debunking claims by «scientists» parroted in «news» outlets such as the government - funded BBC about the Arctic being «ice - free» by the summer of 2013.

Some scientists now think that the Arctic Ocean could be ice - free in the summer as early as 2030.

No one knows when we'll have the first ice - free Arctic summer — extrapolating into the future can be difficult — but one thing we can bet on is that it'll be a lot sooner than the year 2100 as originally predicted just a few years ago.

Most of the studies on the Arctic climate and ice trends cited to support the proposed listing assumed that the buildup of heat - trapping gases was probably contributing to the loss of sea ice, or that the continued buildup of these gases, left unchecked, could create ice - free Arctic summers later this century, and possibly in as little as three decades.

For as long as climatologists have studied it, the Southern Ocean has been almost ice - free in summer, the time of year when it would receive enough heat from the Sun to have a large effect.

(Not least because I expect to see ice - free Arctic summers within that span — «ice - free» defined as sub-1 million km2 extent — and I expect that there will be a warming feedback from that event.

«We have to be cautious until our data has been properly analysed as part of a climate model, but this does suggest that the Arctic might be ice - free in summer for a day at least by the end of the decade,» Laxon told BBC News.

Some scientists have said that the Arctic Ocean could be ice - free in the summer in as little as 30 years.

As the rate of sea ice decline speeds up it is starting to exceed the predictions of climate computer models which had previously suggested that by 2100 the Arctic will be ice free in summer.

«Whether it's a record this year or the year before isn't maybe as newsworthy as just the fact that we're on this long - term decline, and we're going to see an Arctic Ocean that's ice - free in summers in the near future.»

I can't help but wonder whether, years from now, I'll still be writing pieces with titles like «Destroying What Remains,» as the Navy continues its war - gaming in an ice - free summer Arctic amid a sea of offshore oil drilling platforms.

Experts believe that the North Pole will be completely ice - free in the summer months by as early as 2030, while others say that this won't happen until 2050 or 2080.

In 2013, US Navy researchers predicted ice - free summer Arctic waters by 2016 and it looks as if that prediction might come true.

Then they defined «nearly ice free» as > 10 ^ 6 km ^ 2 for five consecutive years in summer.

Howell and Agnew make the point that the ice in the NWP and the surrounding regions is mobile during the summer, and as a result the spatial distribution of multi-year ice at the beginning of the season can be used to predict whether or not the NWP could be ice - free in September.

This year, as every year, there has been much excitement in the media about «catastrophic» melting of Arctic sea - ice, run - away melting, tipping points, death spirals and «ice - free» summers.

With this trend expected to continue as global temperatures rise further, scientists have turned their attention to when Arctic summers could become «ice free».

Ice - free summers could cause trouble for a range of wildlife, as well as people living and work in the Arctic region, Sigmond says:

Though most of the CMIP5 models project a nearly ice - free Arctic (sea ice extent less than 1 × 106 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years) at the end of summer by 2100 in the RCP8.5 scenario (see Section 12.4.6.1), some show large changes in the near term as well.

The probability of an ice - free Arctic summer from 2020 - 2100 under a range of future scenarios including 1.5 C (black), 1.5 C with temperature overshoot (orange), 2C (red), moderate emissions (RCP4.5; purple) and «business as usual» emissions (RCP8.5; blue).

Some previous models project an ice - free summer period in the Arctic Ocean by 2040 (Holland et al., 2006), and even as early as the late 2030s using a criterion of 80 % sea ice area loss (e.g., Zhang, 2010).

Accordingly, they must be challenged to provide a reasoned argument as to why leaving the Arctic Ocean free of ice in summer is safe.

All of this will be over by 2015, when the records of 2010 and 1998 will have been obliterated by increased solar activity, ENSO and decreased albedo as we go into virtually ice free arctic summers, oh and increased GHG concentrations of course.

Indeed, Wieslaw Maslowski, an oceanographer from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, who was not on the Amundsen, has predicted that the Arctic could be completely ice - free in the summer as early as 2013.

«We could be seeing a summer say, late August early September, essentially free of sea ice as early as 2030.

The problem is that ice in this region has been largely absent most summers since 2006, even though overall ice extent has been much more extensive than expected for a «nearly ice - free» summer, as I show below.

The rhetoric and predictions of global warming acolytes have been every bit as confusing in the United States, with former vice president and carbon - credit entrepreneur Al Gore telling an audience in a 2009 speech that «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years.»

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.