Sentences with phrase «less sea ice mean»

What does less sea ice mean other than it is warmer?

Less sea ice means less food for the krill and less food for the penguin.

Taylor also debunked the notion that less sea ice means less polar bears by pointing out that southern regions of the bears» home with low levels of ice are seeing booming bear populations.

Every time I hear that explanation that less sea ice means arctic air can move south I think «Damn, it must have been cold in the Medieval Warm Period».

Not exact matches

Thawing permafrost may mean more CO2 in the atmosphere but less sea ice may mean more carbon captured by the Arctic ocean

Less sea ice in summer means the Arctic Ocean warms more.

Less white ice and more dark sea means that more solar radiation is absorbed, accelerating the thaw.

The global mean temperature rise of less than 1 degree C in the past century does not seem like much, but it is associated with a winter temperature rise of 3 to 4 degrees C over most of the Arctic in the past 20 years, unprecedented loss of ice from all the tropical glaciers, a decrease of 15 to 20 % in late summer sea ice extent, rising sealevel, and a host of other measured signs of anomalous and rapid climate change.

These wildfires release soot into the atmosphere, which accelerates the rate of melting of glaciers, snow and ice it lands upon, which can lead to less reflectivity, meaning more of the sun's heat is absorbed, leading to more global warming, which leads to even more wildfires, not to mention greater sea level rise, which is already threatening coastal areas around the world.

«By «ice - free», scientists usually mean a sea ice extent of less than one million square kilometres, rather than zero sea ice cover.

Yes, people probably get the point that global warming and climate change mean higher sea levels, melting ice in the Arctic, fewer species, less snow for skiing, and bigger storms and droughts.

Five (5) respondents suggest a return toward the long term trend line of summer sea ice loss, but less than the 1979 - 2000 mean extents;

Less ice also meant previous models that budgeted sources of sea level rise were wrong.

This means that the more sea ice there is and the smaller the area of open water, the less water vapor is lifted into the atmosphere.

The melt means there is less thick sea ice that persists for multiple years.

Scientists have found that Arctic sea ice has been recovering less in the winter, meaning the sea ice is already «weak» when the summer melting season arrives.

The long - term decreases in summer sea ice are superposed on extreme record minima in 2007 and even less in 2012 (Stroeve et al., 2008), 10 with the record low in Arctic sea ice extent on September 16, 2012 of only approximately 3.4 million square km.11 This September 2012 sea ice extent minimum was only 49 percent of its 1979 - 2000 mean.

In the Greenland Sea and Fram Strait area, the June 2012 ice extent is larger in the south, less in the north near Svalbard, but otherwise comparable to the decadal means (Figure 4).

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

Less sea ice in autumn means more snowfall on the continents, which can have a larger impact on on albedo.