Sentences with phrase «north polar ice»

... Many scientists predict — shockingly — that the entire north polar ice cap may be completely gone during summer months during the first term of the next president.

Wherever the North polar ice cover is removed to expose the ocean and the tundra, the sun's energy will be absorbed at 10 times the rate, and the thawing tundra will release methane with 20 times the GHG effect of CO2.

Gore must be ecstatic that his 2013 «Entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 5 years» prediction has come in way ahead of schedule.

Al Gore, unfazed by his climate conviction, went on to claim «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months will be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years,»

The rhetoric and predictions of global warming acolytes have been every bit as confusing in the United States, with former vice president and carbon - credit entrepreneur Al Gore telling an audience in a 2009 speech that «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years.»

Also, the author says «polar ice caps are melting,» but elsewhere (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooling-Arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html) we find images of 60 per cent increase of north polar ice caps!

HANNITY: When the president says the debate is settled, when the secretary of state says that we're not going to — we have no time for a meeting with the Flat Earth Society — five years ago, Al Gore predicted the north polar ice cap would be completely ice - free.

Back in 2009, Al Gore boldly declared that «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years.»

Five years ago, Al Gore predicted that by 2013 «the entire North polar ice cap will be gone.»

The north polar ice pack has reformed, and records were set for snowfall, ice coverage, etc. all over the globe.

Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

Apparent global warming that was progressively melting more and more of the north polar ice sheet each year has been countered by progressive expansion of the south polar ice sheet.

We land bouncily, overshoot the runway (built, the story goes, by robots from previous unmanned missions), and nearly plummet into a deep rift near the north polar ice cap.

Not exact matches

The sea is just 5 ° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body of water beyond the planet's polar ice caps.

Growing the polar ice caps, if they crept southward enough, might drive people out of northern Europe, Asia and North America, Haqq - Misra notes.

In August 1596, a ship from an expedition seeking a polar passage to the Far East lodged in ice off the northeastern coast of Novaya Zemlya, an island north of Russia.

The researchers reached that conclusion by capturing more than two dozen polar bears, implanting temperature loggers and tracking their subsequent movements on shore and on ice in the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska and Canada, during 2008 - 2010.

Students on Ice has introduced me to a new way of interpreting the polar world through the eyes of the young, and I have participated in some amazing trips both north and south.

Paradoxically, both phenomena are likely linked: When sea - ice North of Scandinavia and Russia melts, the uncovered ocean releases more warmth into the atmosphere and this can impact the atmosphere up to about 30 kilometers height in the stratosphere disturbing the polar vortex.

Unlike the south polar cap, the north polar cap probably consists of water - ice.

The team was especially interested in regions near the north and south poles, because the polar ice caps are the planet's largest known reservoir of water.

Impact of ice melt on storms Freshwater injection onto the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans causes increase of sea level pressure at middle latitudes and decrease at polar latitudes.

If you board a ship heading north from there, just before you reach the polar ice cap you run into a group of islands known as the Svalbard archipelago.

Significantly, this water was found near Mars» north pole, but not in its polar icecaps, indicating that water extends farther than just those areas of trapped water ice, dust and carbon dioxide.

Both the north and south polar regions of Mars are covered in a permanent cap of ice, similar to modern day Antarctica.

Diminished sea ice can impact the ability of Arctic species like polar bears and walruses to find food, and could impact the weather across North America, Europe and Asia, though that connection is still contentious.

In the long term, changes in sea level were of minor importance to rainfall patterns in north western Sumatra With the end of the last Ice Age came rising temperatures and melting polar ice sheets, which were accompanied by an increase in rainfall around Indonesia and many other regions of the worlIce Age came rising temperatures and melting polar ice sheets, which were accompanied by an increase in rainfall around Indonesia and many other regions of the worlice sheets, which were accompanied by an increase in rainfall around Indonesia and many other regions of the world..

The latest from the New York Herald Tribune states that the polar exploration ship Hansa is reported by a whaler as being crushed in sunk in the pack ice in its attempt to reach the North Pole; sunk at seventy degrees north latitude off GreenNorth Pole; sunk at seventy degrees north latitude off Greennorth latitude off Greenland.

Today, if just the current Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica melted, it is estimated that sea level would rise 20 to 251 If we melted all of the ice on Greenland, the North polar areas and the Antarctic in addition, sea level could rise 300» or Ice Shelf of Antarctica melted, it is estimated that sea level would rise 20 to 251 If we melted all of the ice on Greenland, the North polar areas and the Antarctic in addition, sea level could rise 300» or ice on Greenland, the North polar areas and the Antarctic in addition, sea level could rise 300» or so.

We know this because of the ice core analysis from the polar regions both north and south.

«According to a 1972 article in the Christian Science Monitor, Belchen asserted that «a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice - free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000 ″»

The continuing warming and summertime retreats of sea ice around the North Pole are making life difficult for seal - hunting polar bears, eroding Inuit coastal villages and now, evidently, eroding Arctic defenses (although not weakening them, the Pentagon insists).

The good folks studying polar ice were thinking, just several years ago, that this North Pole ice - free event would come, say, sometime after 2050.

This change speed is dizzying us in the Arctic, even snow buntings come back very early this spring, and polar bears are seen on the thin enough sea ice for seals at the North Pole.

You can get a fresh look at the sea ice by clicking here to check out the North Pole Webcams left behind in April by the polar research team.

(Keep in mind that almost all Arctic sea ice researchers add a big caveat when talking of an «ice - free Arctic Ocean,» noting that a big region of thick floes north and west of Greenland will almost surely persist in summers through this century, which is one reason some scientists have proposed targeting polar bear conservation efforts there.)

The north - polar ice is going very fast; it covers twelve per cent less area and is forty per cent thinner than it was only fifteen years ago.

The forecast shows near - normal ice concentrations in the marginal ice zone and below normal ice concentrations in the polar pack, however the skill of the model north of ~ 80N isn't greater than chance.

In the antarctic polar band (60 and south) there is no ocean at all, all water vapor coming in from the stratospheric conveyor belt (Hadley cell to temperate cell to polar cell), and in the north, there is an icy ocean mostly covered with floes and fast ice.

That line is 0, meaning zero ice, essentially nothing but liquid water at the Earth's north polar regions; that means this graph gives you an absolute scale.

Polar bears are being driven from their usual habitats on the disappearing polar ice at the same time that grizzlies are moving farther north because of global warming, resulting in cross-breeding.

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So the north polar sea ice has been steadily thinning in depth and shrinking in area for more than 30 years.

«Ice has flatlined in the North Pole, while it goes through the roof in the South Pole... The widely claimed polar meltdown continues to be nothing more than bad fiction»

-LRB-- NAO) This sea ice then melts in the Sub Polar Atlantic, releasing fresh water into the sub - polar Atlantic waters, which in turn impedes the formation of NADW, which slows down the thermohaline circulation causing warm air not to be brought up from the lower latitudes as far north as previous while in lessening amounts.

Global warming appears to be shifting the drifting direction of the North Pole so far this century due to the melting of polar ice and redistribution of water on land.

Franz Josef Land provides the most stable sea ice habitat for Barents Sea polar bears because it is largely beyond the influence of warm water influxes from the North Atlantic.

As the last major ice age began to recede around 17,000 years ago, polar ice caps in the north and south started to melt, releasing vast quantities of fresh water into the salty oceans, altering natural currents, affecting the environment.

The rapid expansion of polar ice and concomitant compression of mid-latitude atmospheric cells may have greatly amplified storms in the North Atlantic.