Sentences with phrase «of polar warming»

With a great deal of polar warming going on (more so than lower latitudes) it would be the opinion of many that GISS is more accurate overall if you want to look at the whole surface of the planet.

* See also Gillett et al, 2008, «Attribution of polar warming to human influence» wherein figure 1a shows the same behaviour.

Nevertheless, the title «Attribution of polar warming to human influence» [my emphasis] is a bit misleading.

Not exact matches

«Each purchase of a white Coca - Cola can supports: false testimony on global warming; perpetration of the myth about endangered polar bears... activism to fight the development of affordable coal, oil and natural gas; hypocrites who won't follow their own recommendations; and expansion of already excessive environmental regulations.

In an age in which emotional narratives often trump facts, the polar bear became the icon of global warming hysteria.

On Thursday, Ruch's watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett's behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have «actively persecuted» him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference... In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.

Made of water - repellent polar fleece or hemp / cotton flannel, your baby's buns will remain warm while your potty cozy stays relatively dry.

Made of water repellent polar fleece or hemp / cotton flannel, your baby's buns will remain warm while your potty cozy remains relatively dry.

Scientists now believe that the projected decreases in the polar sea ice due to global warming will have a significant negative impact or even lead to extinction of this species within this century.

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.

The IUCN website also points out that, while the polar bear has come to symbolize the impact of global warming on wildlife, many other species are similarly affected, including the ringed seal and well - known species like the beluga whale, arctic fox, koala and emperor penguin.

A warm fabric made of freeze - dried liquid silk mimics polar bear fur, making rabbits invisible to infrared cameras.

Mori et al. identified two circulation patterns that drove winter temperatures in Eurasia from 1979 to 2013: the Arctic Oscillation (which confines colder air to the polar latitudes) and a pattern dubbed «Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia» (WACE), which correlated both to sea - ice loss in the Barents - Kara Sea and to particularly cold winters; its impact has more than doubled the probability of severe winters in central Eurasia.

As contemporary signs of global warming, Schneider and his colleagues point to rapidly melting polar icecaps, ocean acidification, loss of coral reefs, longer - lasting droughts, more devastating wildfires, and rising sea level.

The more intensive variations during glacial periods are due to the greater difference in temperature between the ice - covered polar regions and the Tropics, which produced a more dynamic exchange of warm and cold air masses.

It's called the polar jet stream, and as it writhes eastward across the North American continent, it can bring storms in its wake or herald an unseasonable change in temperature — north of the jet stream lies cold, Arctic air, while to its south are warmer conditions.

He first thought that the shift might be a result of global warming, as melting polar ice flowed toward the equator.

It draws attention to the effects that global warming is having in diminishing glaciers, leaving the future of polar bears decidedly uncertain.

what we need to think about also, now, are polar cities, GOOGLE THE TERM, for future survivors of global warming events.

«It is possible that Svalbard may have provided one such important refuge during warming periods, in which small polar bear populations survived and from which founder populations expanded during cooler periods,» argues biologist Charlotte Lundqvist of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, who is a co-author of the new study.

Regardless of how old the polar bear is as a species, or whether it's a species at all, the purpose of such studies is to gain a better understanding of the great white bear's ability to survive in the Arctic, which is now rapidly transforming as a result of accelerated global warming.

Because these warm - blooded creatures had to endure the darkness of winter in the polar regions, Rich's group gave it the official name of Ausktribosphenos nyktos, the «Australian Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal that lived by night.»

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

The Obama administration mulls whether the plight of the polar bear should prompt efforts to combat global warming

But places like the ancient icy oasis of Svalbard, should they endure relatively unchanged through human - induced global warming, may not be enough to save the polar bear this time.

The same contortions of the polar vortex that blasted more than half of the U.S. allowed unusual warmth to spread north to Alaska, which was 14 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in January than the long - term average.

The negative impacts of warmer winters may be less evident in Nordic countries than in places like Alaska, where people and animals like polar bears and seals are more dependent on the presence of sea ice, according to Serreze.

This time of year, the stratosphere tends to warm up with the breakdown of the polar vortex, a cyclone that traps cold air.

The last decade has been one of the warmest on record for the polar region, with 2007 summer temperatures having risen 9 degrees Fahrenheit above average in some areas.

These effects may not only lead to stronger warming at the north of our planet, but also at the south polar region.

But Cvijanovic and her colleagues wanted to understand the effects of disappearing polar ice, independent of global warming.

One warm and fuzzy note: an Icelandic team uncovered a polar bear jawbone from the Arctic's Svalbard archipelago that dated to more than 100,000 years ago, suggesting that the animals are capable of weathering prolonged warm spells.

Global warming may prove worse for insects — and other cold - blooded critters — living in the steamy tropics than for their counterparts living closer to the frigid polar regions, according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

The research is timely given the extreme winter of 2017 - 2018, including record warm Arctic and low sea ice, record - breaking polar vortex disruption, record - breaking cold and disruptive snowfalls in the United States and Europe, severe «bomb cyclones» and costly nor'easter s, said Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at AER and lead author of the study.

In the San Francisco Bay area, sea level rise alone could inundate an area of between 50 and 410 square kilometres by 2100, depending both on how much action is taken to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

When the warming extended into the stratosphere, however, disruptions of the stratospheric polar vortex were likely.

The accelerating pace of climate warming in the earth's polar regions is spurring a new sense of scientific urgency.

The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a record low winter peak for the third year in a row

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told a crowd recently that efforts to include the polar bear on the endangered species list are based on «these global warming studies that now we're seeing (is) a bunch of snake oil science.»

Extratropical storms partly depend on the temperature gradient, which is predicted to weaken in the northern hemisphere as the polar region warms more than the rest of the hemisphere.

Black carbon warms the atmosphere because of its ability to absorb radiation from the sun, but its effect can be especially pernicious in polar regions, where, falling on bright ice, the soot diminishes the regions» ability to reflect away heat.

Since the 1970s the northern polar region has warmed faster than global averages by a factor or two or more, in a process of «Arctic amplification» which is linked to a drastic reduction in sea ice.

A low - altitude flow of warm, moist air from an ocean area combined with a flow of cold, dry polar air high up creates maximum instability, which means that parcels of air heated near the surface rise rapidly, creating powerful updrafts.

As a result of atmospheric patterns that both warmed the air and reduced cloud cover as well as increased residual heat in newly exposed ocean waters, such melting helped open the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time [see photo] this summer and presaged tough times for polar bears and other Arctic animals that rely on sea ice to survive, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

«A warmer Arctic in general kind of favors these polar vortex disruptions.

The atmosphere in the polar regions has warmed at about twice the average rate of global warming with Arctic coasts experiencing a rise in the occurrence of storm surges.

«A lot of research has shown that intrusions of warm water are responsible for melting ice along the polar coastlines and that these intrusions are steered by the shape of the seafloor,» said Jamin Greenbaum, an oceanography and geology expert at the University of Texas, Austin, who was not involved with the new study, in an email.

«The warming of the Arctic, the polar amplification of warming, plays a key role here,» said Mann.

On its own, sea level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has produced unprecedented three - dimensional views of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, providing scientists with valuable data on how polar ice is changing in a warming world.