Sentences with phrase «ice levels plummet»
Last year saw sea - ice levels plummet to the second - lowest since records began.
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Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide belched out by cars and power plants soar, while amphibian populations plummet and glaciers dwindle like an ice cube in your palm.
Given the level of denialism in the face of glacial mass loss, plummeting Arctic summer ice cover, progressive collapse of ice shelves that have been stable for 6000 to 10000 years, northward, upward, and seasonally earlier movements of ecosystems and other phenological changes, increasing Greenland ice melt, and all the other direct observations of global warming, I think denialists will go to their graves believing it can't be happening.
If you look at the historical data, when the system we are discussing has been pushed with increased CO2 levels, the planet first seems to heat and then it plummets into an ice age, and the plummet seems to happen very quickly.
Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season plummeted to the lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979.
The plummeting sea ice levels are of grave concern, but there is very little media coverage of what is unfolding at the poles.