Sentences with phrase «lesser sea ice coverage»

In a February report, Dr. Parkinson said, «If trends toward shortened sea ice seasons and lesser sea ice coverage continue, this could entail major consequences to the polar and perhaps global climate, and to the lifestyles and survivability of selected Arctic plant and animal species.»

For the Eastern Fraim Strait, the Southeast Barents Sea, and North Iceland, there was considerably less sea ice coverage (as assessed in months - per - year) during the late 1600s to early 1700s than there has been during the last few decades.

Not exact matches

The ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shriveled last September to 1.32 million square miles, the smallest expanse ever recorded and less than half the area covered by sea ice three decades ago.

During the so - called Holocene Climate Optimum, from approximately 8000 to 5000 years ago, when the temperatures were somewhat warmer than today, there was significantly less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, probably less than 50 % of the summer 2007 coverage, which is absolutely lowest on record.

The estimates also suggests, based on current sea - ice coverage, that it will take another trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions before Arctic summer sea ice more or less vanishes.

Climate scientists had claimed that sea ice coverage in the Bering Sea would shrink due to global warming and that the warmer waters would be less productive for marine lisea ice coverage in the Bering Sea would shrink due to global warming and that the warmer waters would be less productive for marine liSea would shrink due to global warming and that the warmer waters would be less productive for marine life.

How about the Roman Warm Period era, when Arctic temperatures were 2 to 6 degrees C warmer than now and the Arctic had less than 50 % sea ice coverage 6 months of the year vs. just 1.5 months of < 50 % sea ice coverage during the post-1950s «Anthropocene»?

Meanwhile, 6,000 kilometers to the north, the Arctic has less sea ice than at any time in the 37 years that satellites have been measuring ice coverage.