Sentences with phrase «more square miles of ocean»

Now comes a report in the UK Daily Mail that «eminent scientists» have observed a record return of the Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60 percent in a year, covering with ice almost 1 million more square miles of ocean than in 2012.

In a September 18 House Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing (a hearing dubbed by Organizing for Action as «DenierPalooza»), Congressman Ed Whitfield (R - KY) stated, «I recently read an article that stated that the Arctic ice had nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at this time of year,» and Congressman David McKinley (R - WV) asserted that «Arctic ice has actually grown 60 percent.»

About a million more square miles of ocean are covered in ice in 2013 than in 2012, a whopping 60 percent increase — and a dramatic deviation from predictions of an «ice - free Arctic in 2013,» the Daily Mail noted.

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We've come all the way to the Big Island of Hawaii (4038 square miles) to stare into the ocean's depths at dawn and ride at dusk to the top of Mauna Kea (13,796 feet), lifted up into a heaven packed with more stars than we've ever seen in our lives.

An archipelago of more than 700 sun - drenched islands stretching across 100,000 square miles of breathtaking turquoise ocean, The Bahamas is known for its mild weather, crystalline waters and powder - soft white sand beaches.

Our oceans contain more than 4000x's the concentration of CO2 than our atmosphere, and are buffered by millions of square miles of limestone and other carbon absorbing minerals.