Sentences with phrase «less ice growth»

The main cause is simply global warming: as the climate has warmed there has been less ice growth during the winter and more ice melt during the summer... in the end the summer melt overtook the winter growth such that the entire ice sheet melts or breaks up during the summer months.

The main cause is simply global warming: as the climate has warmed there has been less ice growth during the winter and more ice melt during the summer.

Not exact matches

Orbital forcing causes ice ages or ends them by redistributing incoming solar radiation over seasons and latitudes so that ice sheet growth or decay is more or less favorable on a regional basis, with a resulting global average albedo feedback.)

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Comparison of sea ice age during the second full week of September reveals that the Arctic will enter the winter ice growth season with less multiyear ice (bright colors), but far more first - year ice (dark blue) this year than it did in 2007.

With less sea ice many marine ecosystems will experience more light, which can accelerate the growth of phytoplankton, and shift the balance between the primary production by ice algae and water - borne phytoplankton, with implications for Arctic food webs.

Or look at it the other way around: if the ice cover were a record high in late summer, the opportunity for ice growth (increased area coverage) would be reduced, since there would be less open water that could freeze over.

A 1C warming now would allow for a lot less plant growth then a 1C warming when the world is half covered with ice.

More sea ice means less ocean mixing, which also encourages plankton growth.

The things to consider are immense benefits of cheap energy that makes the developed world so productive, fertilization of the atmosphere for agriculture, lowering fresh water requirements per unit growth in agriculture, longer growing seasons, and less ice / snow in general.