«Global Sea
ice trend by year only (barely) crosses 95 % significance when the first two months of satellite data is included for the entire record.»
Not exact matches
Edible cookie dough has been a hot
trend in the foodie world, with shops in big cities like New York serving it
by the scoop like
ice cream.
Long - term predictions of summer Arctic extent made
by global climate models (GCMs) suggest that the downward
trend will likely lead to an
ice - free Arctic summer in the middle of the century.
The
trends revealed
by the data were clear: The average albedo in the northern area of the Arctic Ocean, including open water and sea
ice, is declining in all summer months (May - August).
And she describes sobering
trends: The projection that Switzerland will lose more than half of its small glaciers in the next 25 years; the substantial retreat of glaciers from the Antarctic, Patagonia, the Himalayas, Greenland and the Arctic; the disappearance of iconic glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana, or reduction to chunks of
ice that no longer move (
by definition, a glacier must be massive enough to move).
Comiso and other climate scientists reject the suggestion that his data set may overestimate the recent
trend in Antarctic sea -
ice growth —
by as much as two - thirds, according to Eisenman's analysis.
Large - scale surface temperature reconstructions yield a generally consistent picture of temperature
trends during the preceding millennium, including relatively warm conditions centered around A.D. 1000 (identified
by some as the «Medieval Warm Period») and a relatively cold period (or «Little
Ice Age») centered around 1700.
Current predictions [5], [6] suggest that
trends in sea
ice extent will alter in the second half of this century and that the annual average sea
ice extent will diminish
by 33 %; most of this retreat is expected to occur in winter and spring [5], [6], with attendant risks for emperor penguins.
Changes in the winds around Antarctica therefore change
ice - concentration
trends around Antarctica [8]
by influencing sea -
ice production and melt rates [9].
Collectively, these observations can be used to project
trends of ocean acidification in higher latitude marine surface waters where inorganic carbon chemistry is largely influenced
by sea
ice meltwater.
«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined
by environmental
trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting
ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» 6.
It is difficult to see how a person in the general public should not be concerned
by the downward
trend of Arctic sea
ice volume.
«According to a 1972 article in the Christian Science Monitor, Belchen asserted that «a general warming
trend over the North Pole is melting the polar
ice cap and may produce an
ice - free Arctic Ocean
by the year 2000 ″»
What about the feedbacks that are not normally well represented
by ECS and normally fall into the Earth System Climate Sensitivity, stuff like the Arctic
Ice cover, which now has
trends over decades closer to what was seen on centuries in paleoclimate:
~ Our study confirms many changes seen in upper Arctic Ocean circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than
trends caused
by global warming,» / / www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-131 [ANDY REVKIN comments: That's precisely what I wrote in the Science Times feature on Arctic
ice in September (link is in the post).
Although a recent downward
trend in coverage is clearly visible
by naked eye inspection, Goddard invites us to believe there has ``... been no net gain or loss of polar sea
ice since records began.»
If aerosols and GHGs have a lower forcing, that must be compensated
by a larger forcing for something else, to fit past temperature
trends (especially the 1945 - 1975 period and other — little —
ice ages).
BPL: The warming
trend is not twenty years old, but 165 years old
by direct measurements and perhaps 250 years old if you include
ice - core data.
What if history repeats itself and the warming
trend we currently have will be followed
by a cooling period similar to what is known as the «little
ice age»?
The same issues have dogged other attempts
by climate scientists to glean clues on climate
trends from bodies of data collected
by satellites and weather balloons for other reasons (not to mention ongoing attempts to discern climate patterns in tree rings,
ice layers, and other natural substitutes for thermometers; remember the «hockey stick» debate?).
The lower
trend found
by our study is consistent with the median projected sums of thermal expansion and glacier mass loss, implying that no net contribution from polar
ice sheets is needed over 1901 - 1990.
By forecasting more sea
ice this summer, I am going against the grain; the posts here mainly assume a downard
trend (though of course one year does not change in
trend).
Unfortunately, the tough scientific work to clarify
ice and sea
trends and dynamics has largely been obscured online
by coverage focused on an error on Greenland
ice loss that many polar scientists say made it into the new edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World (that's the British Times, just to be clear).
A significant northward
trend (reduction of
ice) in the winter - maximum
ice edge is apparent, however, and appears to be caused
by the gradual warming of sea - surface temperatures in the region (paper available on this if you want it).
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (whose reports are conservative
by nature), and a range of other assessments all conclude with high confidence that — for better or worse — the long - term Arctic
trend for summer sea
ice is down, given the projected buildup of greenhouse gases and tendency of the Arctic to amplify warming.
Re 9 wili — I know of a paper suggesting, as I recall, that enhanced «backradiation» (downward radiation reaching the surface emitted
by the air / clouds) contributed more to Arctic amplification specifically in the cold part of the year (just to be clear, backradiation should generally increase with any warming (aside from greenhouse feedbacks) and more so with a warming due to an increase in the greenhouse effect (including feedbacks like water vapor and, if positive, clouds, though regional changes in water vapor and clouds can go against the global
trend); otherwise it was always my understanding that the albedo feedback was key (while sea
ice decreases so far have been more a summer phenomenon (when it would be warmer to begin with), the heat capacity of the sea prevents much temperature response, but there is a greater build up of heat from the albedo feedback, and this is released in the cold part of the year when
ice forms later or would have formed or would have been thicker; the seasonal effect of reduced winter snow cover decreasing at those latitudes which still recieve sunlight in the winter would not be so delayed).
Comiso and other climate scientists reject the suggestion that his data set may overestimate the recent
trend in Antarctic sea -
ice growth —
by as much as two - thirds, according to Eisenman's analysis.
This means that the current warming
trend is qualitatively different from those we can study through
ice cores etc., even if past warming was amplified
by a CO2 feedback.
Updated, July 23, 1:40 p.m. A new study of methods used to track Antarctic sea
ice trends has raised important questions about whether recent increases in
ice there are, to a significant extent, an illusion created
by flawed analysis of data collected
by a series of satellites.
None of the sea -
ice specialists I've interviewed since 2000 on Arctic
trends ever predicted a straight - line path to an open - water Arctic, but quite a few have stressed the longstanding idea that as white
ice retreats, solar energy that would have been reflected back into space is absorbed
by the dark sea, with that heat then melting existing
ice and shortening the winter frozen season.
iheartheidicullen @ 162: Sorry if my tone was intemperate, but really the SH and NH sea
ice trends have been analysed at length online
by Tamino and others, over the last year or two, with the clear conclusion that the SH anomaly
trend is small (the anomaly at the maximum last year was about 1.5 % of the mean annual maximum, if I remember correctly) and not statistically significant (at the 95 % level, I think), whereas the NH
trend is large (tens of percent), long - lived, and statistically very significant indeed.
The past two weeks have not been good for the Arctic and climate change: First, scientists discover that permafrost holds more greenhouse gases than we thought; Second, sea
ice melt - off is at its second greatest amount ever and could set a new record
by summer's end; Third, new research confirms that the past decade has indeed been the warmest since the Romans occupied Britain, and the
trend is for more warming.
even as we are probably being propelled into a new
ice age,
by forces independent of human activity, the warming oceans, most probably largely caused
by undersea volcanic activity in the pacific ocean, may cause a continuing warming
trend in alaska.
«We expect that if the
trends continue, compared with today, polar bears will experience another six to seven weeks of
ice - free periods
by mid-century.»
The very next year the same magazine reported that «The world may be inching into a prolonged warming
trend that is the direct result of burning more and more fossil fuels...» The
ice - age theories, said the article, «are being convincingly opposed
by growing evidence of human impact.»
remember the arctic sea
ice trend remember the kilimanjaro glacier
trend à ¯ f the
trend presists it'll all be gone
by 2050.
Well in the 70's and early 80's you had the cooling
trend crowd who predicted that
by now we would be having another
ice age.
Everyone should consider the possibility that for some indices, North Atlantic correlations (in correlation maps) are depressed
by the North Atlantic's sensitivity (being the smaller northern basin surrounded
by a lot of land /
ice, resulting «higher continentality»), which gives it a propensity towards high amplitude oscillations, including decadal - timescale nonlinear
trends.
Canadian
Ice Service, 4.7 (+ / - 0.2), Heuristic / Statistical (same as June) The 2015 forecast was derived by considering a combination of methods: 1) a qualitative heuristic method based on observed end - of - winter Arctic ice thickness extents, as well as winter Surface Air Temperature, Sea Level Pressure and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) a simple statistical method, Optimal Filtering Based Model (OFBM), that uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate the September sea ice extent timeseries into the future and 3) a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predicto
Ice Service, 4.7 (+ / - 0.2), Heuristic / Statistical (same as June) The 2015 forecast was derived
by considering a combination of methods: 1) a qualitative heuristic method based on observed end - of - winter Arctic
ice thickness extents, as well as winter Surface Air Temperature, Sea Level Pressure and vector wind anomaly patterns and trends; 2) a simple statistical method, Optimal Filtering Based Model (OFBM), that uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate the September sea ice extent timeseries into the future and 3) a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predicto
ice thickness extents, as well as winter Surface Air Temperature, Sea Level Pressure and vector wind anomaly patterns and
trends; 2) a simple statistical method, Optimal Filtering Based Model (OFBM), that uses an optimal linear data filter to extrapolate the September sea
ice extent timeseries into the future and 3) a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea ice predicto
ice extent timeseries into the future and 3) a Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) prediction system that tests ocean, atmosphere and sea
ice predicto
ice predictors.
bozzza - The differences in the Arctic are perhaps 1/4 the ocean thermal mass as global ocean averages, small overall size (the smallest ocean), being almost surrounded
by land (which warms faster), more limited liquid interchanges due to bottlenecking than the Antarctic, and very importantly considerable susceptibility to positive albedo feedbacks; as less summer
ice is present given current
trends, solar energy absorbed
by the Arctic ocean goes up very rapidly.
People observed this
trend of earlier
ice - out dates
by comparing to their own recollections, and all one has to do is look at the aggregated data which has been collected over the years.
«Our analyses indicate that the overall sea -
ice trend is dominated
by increased
ice - shelf melt», the Dutch scientists report.
The antarctic
ice winter max decreased
by about one third during this period, and the HadCRUT temp data base for that region during that period does show a substantial surface air temperature warming
trend.
«To summarize - Using the 60 and 1000 year quasi repetitive patterns in conjunction with the solar data leads straightforwardly to the following reasonable predictions for Global SSTs 1 Continued modest cooling until a more significant temperature drop at about 2016 - 17 2 Possible unusual cold snap 2021 - 22 3 Built in cooling
trend until at least 2024 4 Temperature Hadsst3 moving average anomaly 2035 — 0.15 5Temperature Hadsst3 moving average anomaly 2100 — 0.5 6 General Conclusion —
by 2100 all the 20th century temperature rise will have been reversed, 7 By 2650 earth could possibly be back to the depths of the little ice ag
by 2100 all the 20th century temperature rise will have been reversed, 7
By 2650 earth could possibly be back to the depths of the little ice ag
By 2650 earth could possibly be back to the depths of the little
ice age.
A positive
trend for dispersed sea
ice extent in the Antarctic in winter amid rising winter temperature in the southern hemisphere is not matched
by trends in concentrated sea
ice extent and the degree of dispersion and is discounted as spurious.
(08/31/2009) If current melting
trends continue, the Arctic Ocean is likely to be free of summer sea
ice by 2015, according to research presented at a conference organized
by the National Space Institute at Technical University of Denmark, the Danish Meteorological Institute and the Greenland Climate Center.
Generally yes, but there has been a lot of new information learned since the IPCC Third Assessment Report (e.g., on
trends in hurricane intensity, the accelerated melting back of Arctic sea
ice, the intensifying deterioration of the edges of the Greenland Ice Sheet, etc.) and Gore's presentation of the science has been updated to account for these, drawing from what are the really highly reviewed and high quality papers by leading scientis
ice, the intensifying deterioration of the edges of the Greenland
Ice Sheet, etc.) and Gore's presentation of the science has been updated to account for these, drawing from what are the really highly reviewed and high quality papers by leading scientis
Ice Sheet, etc.) and Gore's presentation of the science has been updated to account for these, drawing from what are the really highly reviewed and high quality papers
by leading scientists.
More importantly, we must wonder what the satellites would have observed happening in the Antarctic when Roald Amundsen sailed through the Arctic in 1903 - 1905 on the small wooden ship Gjøa when the Northwest Passage was open to sailing vessels, and again in 1940 - 42 and 1944 (St. Roch), it is possible the reduction in Arctic
ice is not an indicator of warming, since it was balanced
by record high Antarctic
ice levels and a rising
trend line for the data set since 1979.
Statistical studies have debated the correlation between retreating Arctic
ice and the negative NAO because it generates a confounding short term warming
trend that is contradicted
by the longer cooling
trend suggested for the LIA as well as observed during the 1960s and 70s.
One passage written
by Heartland reads, «Scientists who study the issue say it is impossible to tell if the recent small warming
trend is natural, a continuation of the planet's recovery from the more recent «Little
Ice Age,» or unnatural, the result of human greenhouse gas emissions.»