Sentences with phrase «less seasonal ice»

Scientists have long warned that the world needs to quickly move away from fossil fuels in order to mitigate global climate change, but governments with stakes in the Arctic have yet to heed these calls: instead they have viewed less seasonal ice due climate change as a chance to exploit the region for more fossil fuels.

This fresh water, together with melt ‐ water from the melting ice pack in summer forms a permanent superficial layer (usually about 200m deep) of low salinity over the entire Arctic Ocean, without which much less seasonal ice would form.

Not exact matches

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If polar bears have been around for few hundred thousand years they have experienced a variety of environmental changes in the Arctic, including periods when there was more sea ice than present as well as periods when seasonal sea ice was considerably less than at present.

NASA GMAO (Cullather et al.), 5.03 (+ / - 0.41), Modeling The GMAO seasonal forecasting system predicts a September average Arctic ice extent of 5.03 ± 0.41 million km2, about 4.7 percent less than the 2014 value.

Feedback — Water vapor, melting sea ice, less seasonal snow duration in Northern Canada.

Every winter, less seasonal snow and ice forms in the Arctic — spanning Northern Canada, Russia, Alaska, and Greenland in addition to the Arctic Ocean — meaning that the melting from the preceding summer is not replenished.