With polar sea ice [
not polar ice caps] for about 30 years we have been fairly accurately measuring it, and in arctic it has significantly decreased, 2007 and 2012 were lowest ice extent during summer.
They hoisted a papier - mache representation of Mother Earth and a giant parachute emblazoned with monarch butterflies, and carried signs reading «Melt chocolate,
not polar ice caps» and «May the forest be with you».
Not exact matches
It the
polar ice caps melt, there won't be any dry land here,» said Nolan, 60.
As Gore shows with a litany of statistics, maps, and charts —
not to mention the film's stark images of drowning
polar bears, crumbling
ice caps, a Katrina - lashed New Orleans, and drunken trees sliding sideways on melting permafrost — global warming is really happening.
«I'm amazed how many people say «
polar ice caps» — it's totally unscientific and
not,
not something we ever talk about as researchers!»
Our study suggests that at medium sea levels, powerful forces, such as the dramatic acceleration of
polar ice cap melting, are
not necessary to create abrupt climate shifts and temperature changes.»
For reasons we don't entirely understand yet, Mars lacks this protection and possesses only remnants of a magnetic field at its
polar ice caps.
Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these
ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the
polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?
Larger sails can thrust against Earth's gravity and
not even be in orbit around the Earth, and a pole sitter could sit continuously over Earth's poles and can provide continuous data on the
polar ice caps.
Doc Greger isn't responsible for your health anymore than a
polar ice cap is.
Anyway, in The Day After Tomorrow New Yorkers need
not feel alone as the entire Northern hemisphere is subjected to freakish destructive weather as the
polar ice caps melt because of global warming and paradoxically result in temperatures dropping to sub-Arctic levels.
Global warming caused the melting of the northern
polar ice cap, and tropical storms ravage all areas that didn't suffer from desertification.
Why hasn't anyone projected what sea levels would be like if the
polar ice caps were completely melted away?
The statement about consequences was in a sentence concerning the
polar ice cap,
not hurricanes.
For example, the statement that
polar ice caps are melting «faster than ever» ought to have some qualification with regard to time frame; how you would work in precision of that sort while keeping to standard punchy journalistic writing style, I'm
not sure.
It's tiring just to watch alarmists jump through all their inelegant hoops and jump at very thin threads (what next, after
polar ice caps aren't melting?).
We do
not have to lose the
polar ice -
caps for disastrous sea - level rise to occur, given the number of major cities situated at or close to sea - level.
But «this is
not just about disappearing
polar bears and melting
ice caps,» EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said Monday morning during the rule's announcement.
Since I'm
not one of those who believes testing it is worth lifting a finger for, I'm
not really the one to provide it, but I note that the world is
not short of those who think otherwise, and who can be relied upon to supply all manner of metrication with their catastrophic alternative hypotheses —
polar bears melting,
ice -
caps dying out, models that project soaring temperatures — you know the sort of thing.
One thing which would be obvious is Earth which no longer have permanent
polar ice caps, but
not as readily obvious would the lack of any snowing on Earth at anytime.
Many Arctic biologists insist that
polar bears are
not just threatened by future global warming and a «melting
ice cap.»
Now, I'm
not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does
not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking
polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.
The amount of
ice on the
polar caps doesn't depend on the temperature, but availability of raw material, to renew itself every season.
The oceans are
not rising any faster than they have since the end of the last
ice age,
polar ice caps and glaciers are
not uniformly melting, and weather is
not getting more extreme.
«This is
not just about disappearing
polar bears and melting
ice caps,» McCarthy said in a speech at EPA headquarters.
Now, the
polar ice caps aren't melting.
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.
The enormous thermal mass of the ocean,
not to mention the heat of fusion of the
polar ice caps, damps the temperature response of the planet to any increase in heat input.
But if the winters were still cold enough to freeze the
polar regions (it wouldn't matter whether the temperature was -20 degC or -22 degC for example) a cooler summer would thaw less of it and the
ice cap would expand.
The strongest evidence in support of climate change is the melting of the
polar ice caps, Langcake acknowledges, noting the temperature in Antarctica rose by 2.5 degrees centigrade between 1945 and 1995 and a Norwegian study supporting the idea of a rapidly accelerating melt at both poles, but claims this theory may
not be borne out over a longer period.
NASA has updated its data from satellite readings, revealing that the planet's
polar ice caps have
not retreated significantly since 1979, when measurements began.
The
Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the
polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on
not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have
not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new
ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?
«At medium sea levels, powerful forces − such as the dramatic acceleration of
polar ice cap melting − are
not necessary to result in abrupt climate shifts and associated drastic temperature changes.»
Melting
ice caps and a couple less
polar bears don't really affect me, right?
Instead of fixing the black carbon (soot) pollution they are responsible for, the EU activists continue to rail about the atmospheric trace gas CO2, which, by the way, doesn't melt glaciers, sea
ice or
polar ice sheet
caps.
The first is that the doomsday scenario for
polar bears comes,
not from real - world observation but from computer - modeled predictions of what might happen in the future if the
ice caps melt, etc..
Satellite composite image of Antarctica, showing the largest know
ice cap ever at Earth's South Pole And now about the
Polar Bears, those stories and the «documentary» film about the death of a
polar bear are
not factual.
We know we're in the midst of some serious climate change, and don't need pictures of
polar bears stuck on fragmenting
ice caps to drive the point home.
Also, this chart does
NOT represent the
polar ice cap.
But it won't melt the
polar ice caps, and kill the forests, and turn the world's most productive croplands to deserts, and acidify the oceans, and cause the mass extinction of most life on Earth.
And if the asteroids don't get us, there's always the melting
polar ice caps, loss of animal life, dwindling physical resources, and other grim scenarios that we seem hell - bent on achieving.
«Trump has observed that the
polar ice caps are
not melting as predicted by global warming hysterics.»
Their admiration for Musk's efforts notwithstanding, I can't help but think a Tesla will be out of place in an educational program about the
polar ice caps — especially since it looks like the car is driving across them in the video.