Sentences with phrase «now sea ice coverage»

However, now sea ice coverage has expanded to reach the sixth record low, according to AFP.

Not exact matches

Given that this summer's minimum has fallen below last year's and will settle in at the 2nd or 3rd lowest on record, last summer's minimum now appears more as a bump in the road toward continuing lower Arctic sea ice coverage.

For example, let's say that evidence convinced me (in a way that I wasn't convinced previously) that all recent changes in land surface temperatures and sea surface temperatures and atmospheric temperatures and deep sea temperatures and sea ice extent and sea ice volume and sea ice density and moisture content in the air and cloud coverage and rainfall and measures of extreme weather were all directly tied to internal natural variability, and that I can now see that as the result of a statistical modeling of the trends as associated with natural phenomena.

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

This coincided with record - breaking shrinkage of Arctic sea ice, where total coverage at the peak of melting season is now 40 percent lower than in the late 1970s.

How about the Roman Warm Period era, when Arctic temperatures were 2 to 6 degrees C warmer than now and the Arctic had less than 50 % sea ice coverage 6 months of the year vs. just 1.5 months of < 50 % sea ice coverage during the post-1950s «Anthropocene»?