Sentences with phrase «lack of sea ice»

Fairly recent science says that lack of sea ice also means the Jet Stream, and the Polar Vortex, will be disturbed, forming unnatural bends, tending to settle for longer, moving slower.

At the risk of belabouring the point that lack of sea ice does not seem to be a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon (see my last two posts, here and here, and Andrew Montford's excellent additions here), I think this is a possibility that needs to be considered.

«As krill stock started to decline dramatically with the lack of sea ice in the late 1980s, so did the survival of these young,» said Trivelpiece, whose work will be published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Yet this is only one way that lack of sea ice could kill off bears.

Only a day before, the U.S. Geological Survey announced it would begin tagging walruses near Point Lay, Alaska to study how a lack of sea ice is affecting the species.

MacKinnon says the lack of sea ice changes the dynamics of that process by enabling the ocean to absorb more heat, creating a positive - feedback loop that begets more rapid sea ice melting.

But the idea that a lack of sea ice sends swirling air masses south and smacks us with horrid, frigid winters has stirred controversy in climate science.