Sentences with phrase «ice in a quarter of a century»

«If you think about the thicknesses of the ice - 200 - 300m thicknesses, in some cases up to 400m thick - and if you're losing ice at the rate of a metre a year, or let's say double it to two metres a year, you're not going to get rid of 200m of ice in a quarter of a century.»

Not exact matches

* 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.

Ice Cube, the once - incendiary NWA rapper celebrating a quarter - century as one of Hollywood's unlikeliest stars, winningly resurrects his «Barbershop» franchise to broker a truce in the Chicago gang wars.

But all of the 15 teams offering projections say ice extent will remain well below the average for the last quarter century and a downward trend in summer ice around the North Pole has not abated.

But, he also says: «teams offering projections say ice extent will remain well below the average for the last quarter century and a downward trend in summer ice around the North Pole has not abated,» and we readers are then linked to his October, 2007 article and an August, 2007 image of a «warmed over» Artic.

The dominant ice - determining factors of the Arctic have shifted several ways, from the dominance of winds around 2000, to new patterns of cracking, to 70 % drop in volume in a quarter century, to new circulations.

Still, the extent of sea ice recorded in November was well shy of the median extent observed over the past quarter century, as the image from Nov. 14 (above, right) shows.