Sentences with phrase «much sea ice coverage»

«There's only about half as much sea ice coverage in the Arctic now as there was only 30 years ago,» Francis says.

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Last Friday afternoon, on a conference call hosted by the National Research Council to present a recent report on the Arctic region, Stephanie Pfirman, an environmental science professor at Barnard College, said Arctic ice coverage is shrinking and that thicker sea ice blocks, which anchor much of the landscape, are rapidly melting.

Again, Monckton must surely know full well that for the last 25 - 30 years satellite temperature measurement of sea and land surface have replaced terrestrial temperature station measurements in many cases since these give a much greater coverage (70 % of the surface of the Earth is water... it's difficult to put weather stations on top of ice sheets etc.!)

If you'll recall from my previous post, polar bears seem to have barely survived the extensive sea ice coverage during the Last Glacial Maximum — in other words, too much ice (even over the short term) is their biggest threat.

The interannual variation of sea ice coverage is much larger than any trend (Fig 2).

Sea - ice coverage near northern Greenland and in the western Arctic Ocean varied in opposition over much of the Holocene.