Sentences with phrase «on polar»

BTW, I could hear your scream all the way down here when you commented on the polar bears.

Teslagrad is on the polar opposite end of the specturm, in which gamers will put their platforming and puzzle solving skills to the test.

There is no evidence that slightly less winter sea ice than the average since 1979 has had any negative impact on polar bear health or survival: the difference is simply not biologically meaningful...

We find that people are on polar opposite sides of this debate and often times for reasons that don't make sense.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is one a several groups monitoring sea - ice levels, using microwave sensors on polar satellites.

Their influence on the atmospheric circulation is focused on the polar regions by the Earth's magnetic field [the opposite phase of the changes in the Arctic and the Antarctic can be explained by the phenomenon of «solar system dissymmetry» as a result of which fluctuations of solar constant occur].

When I was in the Snow and Ice Data Center, receiving a full briefing on the polar ice caps, afterwards I would turn on my TV and there were two networks with the bulletin: «Britney Spears loses custody of her children.»

Because of the press on the recent weather extremes in the NH and focus on the polar jet stream, including Holdren's public remarks giving credence to the hypothesis that global warming may be responsible for weakening the polar jet, there is greater public consciousness of the topic (and some minor controversy).

• As far as is known, the record low extent of sea ice in March 2017 had no impact on polar bear health or survival.

The right - wing media used the investigation not only to reject Monnett's findings, but also to dismiss all the science on polar bears and global warming.

Summary: The authors reviewed nine scientific reports on polar bears commissioned by the U.S. Geological Survey.

The author of a recent paper called Arctic ice cover, ice thickness and tipping points and a leading authority on the polar regions, Wadhams says:

Reply to response to Dyck et al. (2007) on polar bears and climate change in western Hudson Bay by Stirling et al. (2008)

Predicting the changes is a complicated business, but a recent study by Jennifer Francis and Stephen Vavrus made headway on the polar jet stream.

For 2017, she presents the two non-fiction volumes readers around the world have been requesting: straightforward science books about polar bears for adults and children that offer the same no nonsense, big - picture perspective on polar bear conservation that has made her blog and public lectures so popular.

And so, along with scientists who believe the bears are severely threatened, the producers also interviewed Mitch Taylor, a Canadian expert on polar bears who doesn't believe the bears are endangered (he says only two of the 19 polar bear populations are in decline; the program itself said half are in decline) and doesn't believe global warming is primarily human - caused or potentially catastrophic.

However enough fresh cold water comes in on the polar currents ensure that overall the deep oceans stay as cold as (but no colder than) the poles.

Two positions on polar bear policy were presented at a 2007 Anchorage, Alaska hearing.

steven, common belief is: on the polar waters, ice is white, reflects the sunlight.

I reserve a small part for solar induced changes in the rate of transport of energy up through the atmosphere to have an effect on the polar oscillations.

Temperature sounding microwave radiometers flown on polar - orbiting weather satellites provide a long - term, global - scale record of upper - atmosphere temperatures, beginning in late 1978 and continuing to the present.

But there would be a constant interplay between the two with the point of disjunction rising and falling cyclically with a consequent effect on the polar high pressure cells.

BTW, come April is a report coming on polar bears in the arctic.

«We no longer need to wonder; for a couple of decades now, we've been able to directly observe the results of climate warming on polar glaciers.

As Peter Molnar, one of the paper's authors, says in an interview with the BBC, ``... as the climate warms, we may not see any substantial effect on polar bear reproduction and survival for a while, up until some threshold is passed, at which point reproduction and survival will decline dramatically and very rapidly.»

First, the non-ironic reason: Lomborg starts his book with a chapter on polar bears, presumably because he thinks it's one of his strongest arguments — it isn't.

The team's effort focused on the specific example of how bloggers handled global warming's effect on polar bears, a charismatic species that has become a literal poster child both for those advocating for climate action and for their detractors.

We restricted our literature search to scientific articles that investigate both polar bears and sea ice, and that shed light on polar bear ecology and how it may or may not depend on the presence of sea ice.

An article such as «Evolutionary roots of iodine and thyroid hormones in cell signaling» does not fit that bill, to name just one example of Crockford's scientific articles that has been pointed out as evidence of her having published on polar bear ecology.

In that respect it's always been banal to centre the issue of climate change on the polar bear.

He will be speaking on his polar experiences and on energy efficient housing.

But, their own data on polar bear populations contradict claims that rising air temperatures are causing a decline in polar bear populations.

The ice coverage has been documented since 1973 by means of passive microwave sensors on polar orbiting satellite.

Reuters Environment reports on a polar bear study led by Eric Regehr and its findings which were presented by co-author Kristin Laidre at a panel discussion during the America Geophysical Union's 2016 Fall Meeting.

Take a look at the pie - charts below for the three statements on sea ice and those on polar bears, for the two different groups of blogs (termed denier and science - based blogs, respectively), and the peer - reviewed scientific articles that investigate both polar bears and Arctic sea ice.

Additionally, the blogs often cite authors who do not publish regularly on polar bears in peer - reviewed journals.

One of the authors of the Monaghan et al. group had previously examined trends in temperature «inferred from skin temperatures from Advanced Very Hi - Res» Radiometer (AVHRR) instruments on polar orbiting satellites» and found «a statistically insignificant cooling trend over continental Antarctica from 1982 to 1998.»

The findings echo research previously done on polar bears who live on the western shores of the Hudson Bay.

You say anthropogenic influences on polar sea ice is not a difficult concept to understand.

The survey, published in Polar Geography, shows that Tea Partiers — who call for minimal government intervention and are known for their climate scepticism — exhibit a high level of self - assessed understanding of climate science, combined with a low level of knowledge on polar facts.

Last November Prof. Wadhams, a world - leading authority on the polar regions who has just returned from a field trip to the Arctic, told the UK Telegraph that Maslowski's calculations had him «pretty much persuaded.»

She told Motherboard that her lack of peer - reviewed research on polar bears is irrelevant.

The changes in the sea ice environment, and their consequent effects on polar bears, are demonstrable in parallel fluctuations in the mean ages of polar bears killed each year by Inuit hunters.

Effects of climate warming on polar bears: a review of the evidence.

Crockford acknowledges that she has never done any field research on polar bears.

In the eastern Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf, research on polar bear populations and their ecological interrelationships with seals and sea ice conditions began in the fall of 1970.

Their paper acknowledges observations that polar bears have yet to be harmed writing, «Although the effects of warming on some polar - bear subpopulations are not yet documented and other subpopulations are apparently still faring well.»

The BioScience study also analyzed the arguments made by 45 science - based blogs about the impacts of global warming on polar bear populations.

Crockford is the go - to source on polar bears not just for climate denier blogs.

Molnár, P. K., A. E. Derocher, T. Klanjscek, and M. A. Lewis, 2011: Predicting climate change impacts on polar bear litter size.