Sentences with phrase «ice in a warming world»

I'd appreciate your feedback on the article, and your own accounts of experiences on or around ice in a warming world.

The International Conservation Union, in its latest red list of endangered wildlife, gave polar bears threatened status in May, projecting a decline of 30 percent by midcentury from current populations, mainly due to projected losses of sea ice in a warming world.

This acts as what engineers call «negative feedback» and would explain the paradox of more extensive southern ocean ice in a warming world.

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But when tree rings, pollen counts in polar ice, and temperature records from multiple places around the world all point in the same direction, we become increasingly confident that global warming is a reality.

A U.K. - based Antarctic research project called Project MIDAS monitoring the effects of climate change on an ice shelf called Larsen C announced that a vast rift in the rapidly warming pole has split entirely and created a brand new iceberg — the third largest in the world.

Served with vanilla ice cream and a dollop of caramel sauce (a gift from Fenton's Ice Creamery in Oakland, CA, the best caramel sauce in the world), this tart even warmed up well in the microwave on day two and three, and if I was the sort, I would have licked my plaice cream and a dollop of caramel sauce (a gift from Fenton's Ice Creamery in Oakland, CA, the best caramel sauce in the world), this tart even warmed up well in the microwave on day two and three, and if I was the sort, I would have licked my plaIce Creamery in Oakland, CA, the best caramel sauce in the world), this tart even warmed up well in the microwave on day two and three, and if I was the sort, I would have licked my plate.

Disappearing sea ice can influence the jet stream, a study suggests, resulting in more frequent winter blasts in a warmer world

Hayhoe: To put it in perspective, after the last Ice Age there was about a thousand years for the world to warm.

Rising sea levels are certain in a warming world, but there is still substantial uncertainty about the extent of the increase in this century, mainly because the dynamics that could erode the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica remain poorly understood.

Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.

What happens when the world moves into a warm, interglacial period isn't certain, but in 2009, a paper published in Science by researchers found that upwelling in the Southern Ocean increased as the last ice age waned, correlated to a rapid rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

On average, Antarctic sea ice may be considerably thicker than once thought, which could significantly change how scientists assess sea ice dynamics and their interactions with the ocean in a warming world.

Using sediment gathered from the ocean floor in different areas of the world, the researchers were able to confirm that as the ice sheets started melting and the climate warmed up at the end of the last ice age, 18,000 years ago, the marine nitrogen cycle started to accelerate.

If the ice sheets respond rapidly to warming, however, our descendants are going to live in a world with a dramatically altered coastline.

Their primary goal: create the world's first ice archive sanctuary in Antarctica, using glaciers threatened by global warming.

«The sea ice in the Antarctic is probably growing a little, but that is still consistent with expected behavior in a warming world.»

«The land ice in the Arctic and very likely in the Antarctic is losing mass and shrinking, and the sea ice in the Arctic is shrinking, all as expected in world warming from our CO2,» Alley said.

But there are many unknowns about the current status of 11 species of marine mammals who depend on Arctic sea ice to live, feed and breed, and about how their fragile habitat will evolve in a warming world.

Climate change models predict that the Arctic sea ice will continue to shrink in a warming world (as much as 40 % of the ice is expected to be gone by midcentury), and the resulting changes — including later formation of ice in the autumn, rain falling on the snow, and decreasing snow depths — will make it increasingly difficult for the seals to construct their snow caves, NOAA says.

The Antarctic Peninsula is among the fastest warming locations in the world and, according to the European Space Agency, the enormous Wilkins Ice Shelf is in imminent danger of collapse, much like the Larsen ice shelf fragmented a few years baIce Shelf is in imminent danger of collapse, much like the Larsen ice shelf fragmented a few years baice shelf fragmented a few years back.

Climate records derived from the analysis of sediments show that ice shelves off the peninsula have been absent in several earlier eras, when natural variability warmed the world.

«Once the world has warmed 4 degrees C -LSB-(7.2 degrees F)-RSB- conditions will be so different from anything we can observe today (and still more different from the last ice age) that it is inherently hard to say when the warming will stop,» physicists Myles Allen and David Frame of the University of Oxford wrote in an editorial accompanying the article.

For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has produced unprecedented three - dimensional views of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, providing scientists with valuable data on how polar ice is changing in a warming world.

With higher levels of carbon dioxide and higher average temperatures, the oceans» surface waters warm and sea ice disappears, and the marine world will see increased stratification, intense nutrient trapping in the deep Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean) and nutrition starvation in the other oceans.

This in turn will provide a means to answer critical questions about the ice sheet's behavior in a warming world.

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GPS and seismic measurements together provide a means to answer critical questions about ice sheet behavior in a warming world.

In his seminal 1982 book Climate, History, and the Modern World, the renown climatologist Dr. H.H. Lamb revealed that sea ice in the subarctic and Arctic regions was much less extensive during the Medieval Warm Period (9th - 13th centuries) compared to todaIn his seminal 1982 book Climate, History, and the Modern World, the renown climatologist Dr. H.H. Lamb revealed that sea ice in the subarctic and Arctic regions was much less extensive during the Medieval Warm Period (9th - 13th centuries) compared to todain the subarctic and Arctic regions was much less extensive during the Medieval Warm Period (9th - 13th centuries) compared to today.

Historically, methane concentrations in the world's atmosphere have ranged between 300 and 400 nmol / mol during glacial periods commonly known as ice ages, and between 600 to 700 nmol / mol during the warm interglacial periods.

Social commentary of a slightly different kind, Mike Binder's The Upside of Anger is the sort of upper class dysfunction opera that's fallen on hard times (The Safety of Objects, Fallen Angels, A Home At The End of the World, Imaginary Heroes) since the glory days of American Beauty and The Ice Storm, finding itself rejuvenated after a fashion in the smart, warm performances of Joan Allen and Kevin Costner.

When a climatologist (Dennis Quaid) discovers that our indifference to greenhouse gases and global warming has ushered in a new Ice Age, the vice president devilishly scoffs at the news, the commander - in - chief looks indecisive, and the world revels in big bad capitalist America getting its comeuppance.

In the Super Mario World television series episode «Fire Sale», Kootie Pie kidnaps Mama Fireplant, a Venus Fire Trap from Dome City, and takes her to her ice castle to warm it up.

Their views of sea trends through this century still vary widely, while they agree, almost to a person, that centuries of eroding ice and rising seas are nearly a sure thing in a warming world.

Also, evidence of the affects of global warming from many parts of the world speaks for itself — melting ice, droughts, increasing water supply problems in big cities like Barcelona etc..

As evidence to support their belief system continues to crumble in all directions, acolytes of the warming cult fall back ever more desperately on the summer melting of Arctic ice to justify their wishful thinking that the world is still warming, and to explain why we are enjoying such cold winters and wet summers.

Danny Bloom, a freelance writer, translator and editor living in Taiwan, is on a one - man campaign to get people to seriously consider a worst - case prediction of the British chemist and inventor James Lovelock: life in «polar cities» arrayed around the shores of an ice - free Arctic Ocean in a greenhouse - warmed world.

Dec. 11, 2013 — From 2000 to 2010, about 1,900 cyclones churned across the top of the world each year, leaving warm water and air in their wakes — and melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.

Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski — world - renowned expert on the ancient ice cores used in climate research — says the U.N. «based its global - warming hypothesis on arbitrary assumptions and these assumptions, it is now clear, are false.»

Arctic researchers caution that there is something of a paradox in Arctic trends: while the long - term fate of the region may be mostly sealed, no one should presume that the recent sharp warming and seasonal ice retreats that have caught the world's attention will continue smoothly into the future.

Justin Gillis spent several months building the article that ran in The Times over the weekend chronicling efforts to clarify how much seas could rise in this century as the world's ice sheets erode in the face of warming seas and air.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

In the first comprehensive international report on Antarctica's climate, there was strong agreement that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will contribute substantially to the ongoing rise in sea levels in a warming world, while increased snowfall in the interior could offset the contribution somewhaIn the first comprehensive international report on Antarctica's climate, there was strong agreement that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will contribute substantially to the ongoing rise in sea levels in a warming world, while increased snowfall in the interior could offset the contribution somewhain sea levels in a warming world, while increased snowfall in the interior could offset the contribution somewhain a warming world, while increased snowfall in the interior could offset the contribution somewhain the interior could offset the contribution somewhat.

In particular, Andy straightforwardly writes: «accumulating greenhouse gases will warm the world, erode ice sheets, raise seas and have big impacts on biology and human affairs.»

So here we are, still facing a clear long - term picture (more CO2 = warming world = less ice + higher seas + lots of changing climate patterns), but sufficient murk in the short run to fuel the «green noise» and «destructive interference» in climate discourse.

I've queried a batch of researchers focused on ice sheets and sea level on these findings, and asked them how their views of sea level changes in a warming world have evolved since the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The paper was was written by 17 prominent climate, ice and ocean scientists, led by James E. Hansen, the pioneering climatologist who since 2007 has argued that most of his peers have been too reticent in their projections of the possible pace of sea - level rise in a warming world.

There was an eruption of assertions in recent days that the increasing summer retreats and thinning of Arctic Ocean sea ice might be a result not of atmospheric warming but instead all the heat from the recent discovered volcanoes peppering the Gakkel Ridge, one of the seams in the deep seabed at the top of the world.

This ice sheet is losing mass at a rather larger rate (around 220 cubic kilometres per year) and it will take only another 1 - 2 oC world warming to raise the summer melt zone to the top of the Greenland ice pack after which point, in my understanding, the ice sheet will go into irreversible melt.

Michael Crichton did not convince me of the premise that man - made Global Warming is a myth perpetuated by environmental Gods determined to control our «vision of the world», it was hysterical environmentalists themselves who convinced me to question their motivations and facts when I discovered after twenty years of fear - mongering that our world was not going to perish in an Ice Age.

The bottom line, Dr. van de Wal said, is that Greenland is still losing much more ice than is being added through snowfall, and more losses will come in a warming world.