Sentences with phrase «ice minimums like»

If they have, why have we never seen ice minimums like those before?

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To be bare feet, with minimum clothes on and feeling the sea breeze while licking super yummy ice cream... Let me tell you, only few moments / things can top off a moment like that one was.

It has long been suspected that the low solar activity during the Maunder Minimum was one of the causes of the Little Ice Age, although other factors like a small drop in greenhouse gas concentrations around 1600 and strong volcanic eruptions during that time likely played a role as well.

It will not be a new record minimum by the looks of things, but there is a very interesting development, a really long reduced ice zone (not sure what term to use as it is such a large feature), stretching like a finger more or less towards the north pole.

Nick Barnes: Looks like I'm about to lose our November 07 bet on sea ice minimum unless things cool down fast up there.

To me, one remarkable aspect of this summer's ice minimum extent is that it came very close to last year's record - breaking decline, yet there was * not * a highly unusual weather pattern associated with it like last year, in fact conditions were relatively normal.

I don't think winds will be as important a factor as in years past since it looks like all that would have to be done to achieve a record minimum is melt the first year ice.

It's not like there isn't anything climate - y to talk about (sea ice minimums, extreme events, climate model tunings, past «hyperthermals»... etc.).

Carrington's self - serving and unnecessary lyricism aside — as well as the poetic license often taken by the likes of Vidal and Monbiot — this year's sea - ice minimum represents the second lowest on record.

It looks like the Arctic sea ice is close to reaching its seasonal minimum, reflecting a substantial increase in sea ice relative to the record breaking minimum in 2012.

We should also not forget that back in 2005, minimum sea ice levels like we've seen since 2007 (3 - 5 mkm2) were not predicted to occur until 2040 - 2070.

That's if you count from the annual minimum; the sea ice grows and shrinks every year, almost like the planet breathing, with the minimum normally happens around the first two weeks of September.

Even if the 2008 summer sea ice minimum extent appeared to be slightly above the 2007 all - time record minimum, according to passive radiometers, it does not seem like the ice mass budget is significantly different in 2008 compared with 2007.

Actually Fielding's use of that graph is quite informative of how denialist arguments are framed — the selected bit of a selected graph (and don't mention the fastest warming region on the planet being left out of that data set), or the complete passing over of short term variability vs longer term trends, or the other measures and indicators of climate change from ocean heat content and sea levels to changes in ice sheets and minimum sea ice levels, or the passing over of issues like lag time between emissions and effects on temperatures... etc..

In 10 years the Piomas trend line will be where the 2012 minimum was, so a bad melt year like 2010 or 2012 and it will be curtains for the ice.

The next ten years should see the most negative NAO / AO conditions of this solar minimum, and much loss of summer sea ice like 2007 and 2012 and worse.

As you can see, the Mail's «definitive authority on the subject» subject says that «for the summer sea ice minimum» Arctic sea ice extent in fact decreased by more like 12 % per DECADE.

Never fear, minimum extent this year will be far below «normal», because as someone above mentioned, ice volume has not «recovered», and this thin stuff will melt like gangbusters as daylight hours lengthen up there.

Even 80s hip hop star Vanilla Ice (a Port St. Lucie resident) must, like every other Floridian, carry a certain minimum amount of insurance, according to state law.