Sentences with phrase «melting ice floes»

The «consensus» warm - mongers could have declared it only counts as «peer - reviewed» if it's published in Peer - Reviewed Studies published by Mann & Jones Publishing Inc (Peermate of the Month: Al Gore, reclining naked, draped in dead polar - bear fur, on a melting ice floe), and Ed Begley Jr. and «Andy» Revkin would still have wandered out glassy - eyed into the streets droning «Peer - reviewed studies.

JF As an exercise for the reader, have a look at melting ice floe images and count up how many show a tail of obviously smoothed water across the water surface nearby.

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Along the floe's drift course southwards from the Pole, we could see in detail at what point the ice began melting.

These thick floes will then be followed by thin ice, which melts faster in the summer.

As Arctic sea ice melts earlier each year, polar bears in some parts of Norway and Greenland are abandoning ice floes for dry land and their favorite meal — seals — for seabird eggs.

Often photographed clinging to Arctic ice floes as its habitat melts away into warming waters, the polar bear is the poster child for U.S. efforts to save wildlife on the brink of extinction using the Endangered Species Act.

Each zodiac, driven by a member of the expedition team who guided us through the rubble of Antarctica's melting ice, allowed us the opportunity to cruise through the ice, spotting seals snoozing on the floes.

... Researchers estimate the melt pond in the picture was just over 2 feet deep and a few hundred feet wide, which is not unusual for an Arctic ice floe in late July.

The fate of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is determined by a complicated mix of factors, including the pressure changes, with the biggest loss of old thick ice resulting more from a great «flush» of floes than melting, Dr. Rigor and many other scientists tracking the region say.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center released its summary of summer sea - ice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of «second - year ice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of meltiIce Data Center released its summary of summer sea - ice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of «second - year ice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of meltiice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of «second - year ice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of meltiice» — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of melting.

If it is melting in place then something must be getting cold or heat from outside the system is arriving in unusual but sufficient amounts to melt an Egypt - size sea ice floe.

Where the slabbing and compaction has been least, the newest ice between the older floes is likely to melt soon.

Recently published research by Barber and colleagues shows that the ice cover was even more fragile at the end of the melt season than satellite data indicated, with regions of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas covered by small, rotten ice floes.

Newly grown sea ice (greyish areas) forming between old floes, which survived the previous summer melt.

As reported by Don Perovich aboard the Healy, there is widespread refreezing of surface ice meltwater as it runs through, then underneath, the ice and comes into contact with colder, more saline seawater, adding on layers of newly formed ice to the bottom of floes during the melt season.

When researchers say the Arctic could soon be nearly ice free, they do not mean that every last ice floe will melt, turning the Arctic Ocean into a new Caribbean Sea.

Regionally, it can help delay sea ice loss, but on a pan-arctic scale it enhances overall ice melt and ice volume reduction, as these old floes melt faster at lower latitudes.

Field observations and a drifting buoy tracking through the region also reveal that widespread refreezing of surface ice meltwater as it comes into contact with colder, more saline seawater, has added ice layers to the bottom of floes, slowing down thinning and melt of the ice cover.

Increase wave action, especially when there's no thick ice to dampen the waves, flooding floes with saltier water that melts the ice, but can also temporarily fool satellite sensors into thinking there's open water.

R. Gates: yep, no doubt the MacKenzie is delivering enough heat into the Beaufort; and the lower latitude Beaufort itself likely contains enough heat to melt the entire 2.2 M sq km of ice extent floes off.

We might look at it this way, melting the first meter of ice in a storm is easier; the second meter is much tougher, in spite of the dispersed and broken floes, because a lot of the available heat has been used up.

Churn the ice, fragmenting it into smaller pieces which are easier to melt out, turning floes upside down even, with their darker bottoms (due to algae etc) showing up, soaking up more sunlight.

Such conditions will not only hasten melting of ice formed the previous winter but, independently of that process, will also increase the apparent area of open water by rafting and compacting small, isolated ice floes.

Any field - or ship - based updates on ice conditions in the different regions such as sea ice morphology (e.g., concentration, ice type, floe size, thickness, snow cover, melt pond characteristics, topography), meteorology (surface measurements) and oceanography (e.g., temperature, salinity, upper ocean temperature).

Then there's the bleak prospect of a warm northern hemisphere climate melting all the ice in the Arctic, such that polar bears would have no more ice floes to rest on — they could drown from being too fatigued to swim any farther!

Strong winds blowing off the continent are pushing the giant floe away from its parent, the giant Pine Island Glacier, and the warming Southern Hemisphere's has melted the thick winter sea ice that held the block in place since July, said Grant Bigg, an ocean modeler at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

So various tame conservation biologists came up with all sorts of nonsense about how polar bear populations were dwindling and how the melting of the ice floes would jeopardize their ability to feed themselves etc..

In 2000 they subverted a Coca Cola advert using polar bears to suggest that Coke's vending machines used HFC gases that were up to 11,000 times more harmful to the climate than carbon dioxide (CO2), And that polar bear's ice floes were melting as result.

For example, one new study shows that the melt ponds that form on top of sea ice floes in June and July can dramatically accelerate sea ice melt.

This may have helped break up ice floes and encourage melting, although no formal studies of this event have yet been completed.

While International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) information had indicated much of this ice might survive the summer, the latest ice age map provided by J. Maslanik (Figure 5), shows that the tongue of old ice has mostly melted away, except for some isolated floes.

The Polarstern reported low ice concentrations in Baffin Bay at the beginning of August with heavily melted ice remnants (20 - 100m cakes, i.e., small ice floes).