Sentences with phrase «much less sea»

Barents Sea numbers have probably increased since 2005 and have definitely not declined despite much less sea ice cover.
For several thousand years, there was much less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean — probably less than half of current amounts....

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And don't even mention the material in Dead Sea Scrolls much less ask about them.
There's no evidence that Noah or Moses even existed, much less finding an «ark» or a «Red Sea crossing».
Denise — The recipe calls for «2 teaspoons flaky sea salt, such as Maldon, or less of a finer one» — flaky sea salts are very light and in bigger flakes; 2 teaspoons of flaky salt yields much less saltiness than 2 teaspoons of a finer one.
I've made this focaccia also at sea level and it does fall a bit less post bake, but it's still killer even if it falls a bit so don't sweat it much.
When an extreme event collides with continually rising seas, it takes a less intense storm, such as a Category I hurricane, to inflict as much coastal damage as a Category II or III storm would have had when the seas were lower.
But there's much less information out there on what people actually think about the ocean and some of the protection measures,» says California Sea Grant Extension Specialist Jennifer O'Leary, a study coauthor who is based at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.
«We can also combine that data with projections of sea ice, to predict how much more or less it will cost these animals to make a living over the next century,» Fischbach says.
Parnell's team has been able to show that sea level rise on the East Coast has been much less than 1 millimeter (mm) per year for the entire period 0 AD to 1800 AD, and, since then, it's skyrocketed.
It had much higher sea levels, forests extended all the way to the Arctic Ocean, and there was almost certainly a lot less sea ice.
Much of the city's downtown is less than 30 feet above sea level, and advancing waters in the Atlantic could raise groundwater levels as much as 3 feet near the shoreline, the report sMuch of the city's downtown is less than 30 feet above sea level, and advancing waters in the Atlantic could raise groundwater levels as much as 3 feet near the shoreline, the report smuch as 3 feet near the shoreline, the report said.
Smaller, dispersed droplets are less threatening for two reasons: they present more surface area to the water, so ocean bacteria can degrade the oil faster; plus, the small droplets are much slower to rise to the surface, keeping the oil at sea instead of in coastal wetlands and giving the bacteria more time to do their magic.
«Human influence is so dominant now,» Baker asserts, «that whatever is going to go on in the tropics has much less to do with sea surface temperatures and the earth's orbital parameters and much more to do with deforestation, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming.»
Much of Pres. Donald Trump's Mar - a-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Fla., sits less than two meters above the Atlantic Ocean, meaning big parts of the resort could rest beneath the waves by the end of this century as seas rise in response to global warming.
But the aged drink had lost much of its fizz, containing much less carbon dioxide than modern champagne, likely because it had diffused out through the cork during its centuries under the sea.
He said that sensitivity includes water vapour and arctic sea ice, but I suspect that the changes in sea ice in the models are much less than we are seeing in practice.
That is a major change in sea currents, warming, wildlife, coastal erosion, and much less solar energy being bounced back into space by ice that in not there.
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.
In his seminal 1982 book Climate, History, and the Modern World, the renown climatologist Dr. H.H. Lamb revealed that sea ice in the subarctic and Arctic regions was much less extensive during the Medieval Warm Period (9th - 13th centuries) compared to today.
The findings suggest that while the response of Antarctic summer sea ice to human - caused climate change may be less dramatic than in the Arctic, sea ice cover may have declined by as much as 14 % over the last 100 years.
If thermal expansion is no longer contributing, you would expect either less total sea level rise or a much greater contribution from melting ice.
Again, it's important to differentiate between sea salt and table salt, which is much less beneficial due it's nonexistent mineral profile.
Been drinking Hunza water now for a few months instead of adding sea salt which has really helped to replenish minerals and leave me feeling much more hydrated as well as less of a need for electrolyte consumption during and after long endurance sessions.
Sea salt shouldn't be your main source of minerals — you can get much more from leafy greens and other healthy foods)-- but when choosing a salt, why would you choose the less nutritious version?
While Hollywood pretends to wet itself over «La La Land,» a musical without a single tune you can remember, much less hum, the system prepares for the fallout from Amazon making Oscar history with its Best Picture Nominee «Manchester By The Sea
In this version of things, pirates still roam the high seas, much to the eternal fury of Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), who hates pirates more than anything else in the world, and has more or less devoted her entire reign to tracking them down and squashing them.
While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
This does not mean we think the SEA has no role in education reform, much less that we naively yearn to trust everything to «local control.»
In a sea of me - too content, why would they take the time to focus on you, much less become an avid follower?
Prior to the Holocene era sea levels were considerably lower, such that the water width separating the mainland was much less.
The weather is at its best, there are less tourists here, accommodation is much better value - for - money, and the seas their calmest.
There will be less tourists here, accommodation is much better value - for - money, the weather is at its best, and the seas their calmest.
In «A Month By the Sea: Encounters in Gaza», her no less astonishing new book, it is abundantly clear that much has changed on that front in the ensuing 35 years, and readers of Dervla's recent books may rather suspect that her claim made in Baltistan may well have been a case of modesty over accuracy.
Lesser - known regions of Turkey: Many visitors to Turkey focus on the coastal resorts and / or Istanbul but there's so much to be appreciated and enjoyed elsewhere in the country, including the Eastern, Anatolian and Black Sea regions.
At home i troll for SM with two lines the longer under surface (less than 10 feet) and the shorter the deeper (30feet) but last time I lost probably a 10 kg which did open the hook because i tight it too much to avoid to mix the surface line or did I was impress by the strike shaking my 14» 29 ″ kayac out by the sea.
Increased melting of sea ice did occur in the 1920s and 1930s in the Barents Sea (Ifft, Monthly Weather Review, November, 1922, p. 589) and over the Arctic Basin (Ahlmann, 1949, Rapports et Proces - Verbaux des Revions du Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer 125, 9 - 16) but it was much less so than in recent yeasea ice did occur in the 1920s and 1930s in the Barents Sea (Ifft, Monthly Weather Review, November, 1922, p. 589) and over the Arctic Basin (Ahlmann, 1949, Rapports et Proces - Verbaux des Revions du Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer 125, 9 - 16) but it was much less so than in recent yeaSea (Ifft, Monthly Weather Review, November, 1922, p. 589) and over the Arctic Basin (Ahlmann, 1949, Rapports et Proces - Verbaux des Revions du Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer 125, 9 - 16) but it was much less so than in recent years.
Its simple, winter was much smaller in extent, mimicking directly the lesser volume of Arctic sea ice.
I'm not a believer in 2 m sea level rise by 2100, but nor do I think it'll be much less than 1 m. — eric]
The upshot is that Brussels survived this week's terrorist attacks, but it may not survive climate change (much of the city is less than 100 feet above sea level).
Simple physics dictates that with less sea ice there is magnified warming of the Arctic due to powerful albedo feedback; this in turn reduces the equator to pole temperature gradient which slows the jet stream winds causing them to become more meridional; this combined with 4 % more water vapor in the atmosphere (compared to 3 decades ago) is leading to much more extremes in weather.
One thing I would have liked to see in the paper is a quantitative side - by - side comparison of sea - surface temperatures and upper ocean heat content; all the paper says is that only «a small amount of cooling is observed at the surface, although much less than the cooling at depth» though they do report that it is consistent with 2 - yr cooling SST trend — but again, no actual data analysis of the SST trend is reported.
It is important to note that although the sea ice has changed greatly in the past few decades, it has changed much less during the polar breeding season.
Apart from these last concerns, the WAIS is much less worrying than the GIS, because the huge thermal inertia and albedo effect of the EAIS, the antarctic continent itself, and the large amount of antarctic sea ice in the southern winter, all act to reduce the degree of warming for the WAIS (whereas the GIS is the victim of various unfortunate circumstances which amplify warming there).
Also less ice cover allows the vastly warmer sea water to warm the much colder arctic air.
Why use individual tide gauge records when we have perfectly good combinations, from much larger samples, which give a global picture of sea level change and show vastly less noise?
Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.
If the opposite happened and there was too much sea ice, then foraging trips took longer and penguin chicks were less likely to survive.
Actually since ice is pretty much freshwater and hence less dense, when it melts in sea water the sea level will rise but only by a very small amount.
These were incorporated into a new model published in 2016 with colleague David Pollard, projecting an overall 2 metre of sea level rise by 2100 for high CO2 emissions but much less than 1 metre for low emissions.
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