Sentences with phrase «in global ice»

In some sense, the search for a theory of glacial - interglacial cycles amounts to a search for the «rectifier» which turns the modulation of the amplitude of the seasonal forcing into a rectified signal in global ice volume.

What's more, they continue to ignore the broader, more important problem with Will's discussion of sea ice: the facts that picking out two days from a thirty - year time series is not a meaningful way to look at climate trends, and that climate models do not, in fact, lead you to expect a decrease in global ice cover.

Atmospheric CO2 has also been suggested as driving changes in global ice volume [e.g., Shackleton, 2000; Lea, 2004].

This is a 1.65 percent drop in global ice level in 30 years.

(In fact there are studies showing no change in global ice balance, but it does not matter.)

< My response is that rapid climate change is happening, evidenced by observed changes in global ice conditions and global tempertures from the late 1970s to present.

In some sense, the search for a theory of glacial - interglacial cycles amounts to a search for the «rectifier» which turns the modulation of the amplitude of the seasonal forcing into a rectified signal in global ice volume.

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Creamistry's Jay Yim took a crazy experiment in his garage and grew it into a global ice cream brand.

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

Nearly 50 years later, problems like rising global temperatures, melting Arctic sea ice, and the demographics putting pressure on food production and resources like forests, can make you want to scream or bury your head in the sand.

The crisis engulfing the global steel industry is so severe that one of China's top producers has warned a new Ice Age has set in as mills confront overcapacity and Continue Reading

We have much better — and more conclusive — evidence for climate change from more boring sources like global temperature averages, or the extent of global sea ice, or thousands of years» worth of C02 levels stored frozen in ice cores.

Because of that volatility in Antarctica, it's too soon to say whether this year's collapse in global sea ice is an aberration.

Since the ice sheet would have floated away in the event of a global flood, the ice core is strong evidence that there was no global flood any time in the last 110,000 years.

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.

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.

We are running around with our panties in a wad because we know global warming is melting the polar ice caps.

Although global warming may now be a serious concern, it is likely that long - term climate cycles will cause large ice sheets to return at some time in the distant future, and cataclysmic outburst floods will probably recur in this region.»

Although MIDAS is studying climate change's effect on Antartica, they said they weren't sure whether or not global warming was actually the culprit in this particular calving (although they said it does leave the ice shelf in a «vulnerable position.»)

The new Tetra Fino ® Aseptic 100 Ultra MiM, launched today at Gulfood Manufacturing, looks set to set off an earthquake in the food industry, redefining the ice cream / ice lolly supply chain and business model, while inviting dairy / juice producers to tap into the $ 72 billion global ice cream market within their existing production process.

This means producers can tap into the $ 72bn1 global ice cream market without the need for additional investment in production equipment and chilled distribution system.

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I believe that climate change is occurring — the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore.

This tidal energy produces more than enough internal heat to create a global water ocean, possibly as thick in places as 50 kilometers, buried under an outer layer of ice a few kilometers thick.

But as global warming melts Arctic ice, new shipping routes may open up in the coming decades that could allow new patterns of invasion to take shape.

If so, the interaction between hydrofracturing and ice - cliff collapse could drive global sea level much higher than projected in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s 2013 assessment report and in a 2014 study led by Kopp.

«Ice loss from this part of West Antarctica is already making a significant contribution to sea - level rise — around 1 mm per decade, and is actually one of the largest uncertainties in global sea - level rise predictions.

Studying surging glaciers could also offer insights into grander - scale ice flows with global consequences: the movements of the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, which can change abruptly, altering the ice discharges that affect sea level.

Climate scientists find the last glacial period interesting because ice cores in Greenland and ocean sediment cores have shown that during this period there were sharp shifts in global temperatures.

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily but rather in sharp, punctuated bursts when the planet's glaciers melted during the period of global warming at the close of the last ice age.

For more than a decade these Earth - observing satellites have provided some of the first environmental measurements on a global scale, including large - scale changes in the mass of polar ice.

As the Arctic summers are getting warmer we may see an acceleration of global warming, because reduced sea ice in the Arctic will remove less CO2 from the atmosphere, Danish scientists report.

It concludes that the two degrees Celsius global warming target agreed on in the most recent UN Climate Conference will not allow Arctic summer sea ice to survive.

The Australian small carpenter bee populations appear to have dramatically flourished in the period of global warming following the last Ice Age some 18,000 years ago.

Scientists now believe that the projected decreases in the polar sea ice due to global warming will have a significant negative impact or even lead to extinction of this species within this century.

Evidence of past glacial advance and retreat is also more easily observed in the Dry Valleys, providing a window into the past behavior of the vast Antarctic ice sheets and their influence on global sea levels.

«If our results are representative, then sea ice plays a greater role than expected, and we should take this into account in future global CO2 budgets,» says Dorte Haubjerg Søgaard, PhD Fellow, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk.

A change in solar activity may also, for example, have contributed to the post Little Ice Age rise in global temperatures in the first half of the 20th Century.

Due to global warming, larger and larger areas of sea ice melt in the summer and when sea ice freezes over in the winter it is thinner and more reduced.

Consequently we will see increase in the ice - sheet contribution to global sea - level rise.

The work by Mark Jacobson, director of Stanford University's Atmosphere / Energy program and a fellow at the university's Woods Institute, argues that cutting emissions of black carbon may be the fastest method to limit the ongoing loss of ice in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

With more ice melting in this era of global warming, could we have an alien microbial invasion on our hands again?

Melting sea ice has accelerated warming in the Arctic, which in recent decades has warmed twice as quickly as the global average, according to a new study.

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Despite being classified as rare disease, public awareness is very high, fueled by celebrity patients like Stephen Hawking and culminating in last years» Ice Bucket Challenge, the first charity campaign with global impact.

In this dark place, so far from human eyes, significant environmental change may already be underway, which could impact how quickly the ice sheet slips into the sea and, subsequently, how quickly global sea levels may rise.

In a new paper, Hansen and colleagues warn that the current international plan to limit global warming isn't going to be nearly enough to avert disasters like runaway ice - sheet melting and consequent sea - level rise.

Since 1995, researchers found that Greenland has lost a total of about 4,000 gigatons of ice, which has become the biggest single contributor to the rise in global sea levels.

Climate change is a shift in overall global temperatures and weather, and it is already affecting ice sheets and glaciers across the globe.

The initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession — prior to the global Ice Age that set in around 700 million years ago.