Sentences with phrase «on polar climate»

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Some even hung up their polar bear outfits and called it quits on climate campaigning.

The Earth's polar regions are in peril as a result of climate change, speakers cautioned at a 16 June briefing on Capitol Hill, and solving the problem requires greater support for geoscience research.

«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.

Leading Antarctic marine biologist James McClintock gives us an unprecedented first - person account of the dramatic impacts of climate change on the polar environment and its wildlife

If the melting of the polar ice caps injects great amounts of freshwater into the world's oceans, climate scientists fear that the influx could affect currents enough to drastically change the weather on land

Dr. Vavrus suggests that, as of yet, the effect of climate change on Arctic cyclone activity has been minimal, but that future changes in polar climate will drive stronger shifts.

In May 2008, the Bush Administration, after multiple lawsuits, put the polar bear on the endangered species list and acknowledged that the survival of the species is jeopardized by climate change.

IMAGES of polar bears drifting on isolated chunks of ice made the species a poster child for the perils of climate change.

«When we look forward several decades, climate models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the global polar bear population.

For years, concern about NOAA's troubled polar satellite program has focused on climate sensors, six of which were stripped from JPSS's predecessor, NPOESS, in 2006, to preserve weather data.

The newly discovered phenomenon over the South Seas boosts ozone depletion in the polar regions and could have a significant influence on the future climate of Earth — also because of rising air pollution in South East Asia.

The climate change and melting [of glaciers and polar ice] issue is obviously something that's apparently under way and can not be turned on a dime.

Because ocean currents play a major role in transporting the planet's heat and carbon, the ECCO simulations are being used to understand the ocean's influence on global climate and the melting of ice in polar regions.

Researchers still need icebreaking capability to study global warming's effects on polar environments — and climate change will sharpen this need well beyond scientific missions.

«When we think of climate change having an impact on a mammal species, what comes to mind most immediately is an Arctic animal like the polar bear, which depends on sea ice to survive,» Helgen said.

Many of the projected effects of climate change on the world's oceans are already visible, such as melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels.

A short skim through the text below this classic climate change image is often all it takes for glaciologist Twila Moon to find the words that set her teeth on edge: polar ice caps.

No one in the U.S. government is detailing those issues, and BOEMRE won't allow Monnett to speak to the media, but the disclosure has generated a firestorm on the blogosphere as climate change skeptics are wildly speculating about scientific misconduct in regard to Monnet's polar bear work.

The Antarctic blogs, whether official or personal, raise awareness of climate change issues and communicate directly with the public on current polar projects and life on the ice.

Much of the media reporting on climate change and polar issues is through the lens of staged pseudo-events or celebrity campaigners such as Al Gore.

With renewed interest in arctic oil and gas development and recognition that the polar regions are early warning systems for climate change, both foreign and Canadian researchers once again are focusing on the Arctic.

The paper draws a convincing connection between the intensification of the Amundsen Sea low - pressure system and increasing snow accumulation, said David Bromwich, a polar weather and climate scientist with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, who was not an author on the newclimate scientist with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, who was not an author on the newClimate Research Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, who was not an author on the new paper.

To date therefore, a combination of insufficient resolution in marine and terrestrial sediments bearing the YTT and a lack of YTT ash in the polar ice cores has prevented precise evaluation of the YTT's impact on global climate and hominin populations.

The polar positions of Clinton and Trump on climate are drawing sharper contrasts than in previous elections.

We create and manage projects that focus on research in the polar regions as means to understand fundamental climate mechanisms, and to drive change towards a more sustainable society.

The International Polar Foundation actively supports polar scientific research, as well as championing informed action on climate change, and the development of a sustainable society.

The Foundation supports polar scientific research for the advancement of knowledge, the promotion of informed action on climate change, and the development of a sustainable society.

Her current work focuses on understanding past climate change during both greenhouse and icehouse periods, particularly in the polar regions, the areas of Earth that are most sensitive to climate change.

I had just been in a discussion of climate change on a messageboard where someone had triumphantly put up links to various blogs (including one that you noted here) drawing conclusions about the cause of the global warming here on earth on the basis of these recent measurements of Mars's south polar cap!

My thought is that the UK's temperate climate is primarily due to SWly prevailing winds blowing from the relatively warm ocean, as opposed to places on the eastern side of a large continent which will frequently receive cold polar continental airmasses in winter, because the mid-latitude westerlies will be blowing from a cold continental interior.

Premier Anna Bligh, who launched the initiative at Sea World's polar bear shores on the Gold Coast, said climate change was everyone's responsibility.

The International Polar Foundation conceives and implements ambitious projects to support polar scientific research, promote informed action on climate change, and drive development of a sustainable society.

The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.

The International Polar Foundation focuses on polar regions and polar sciences as a means to communicating on climate change and to promote a more sustainable society.

And while climate change remains a legitimate concern for wildlife — particularly on isolated mountaintops and in species - poor polar regions — it does not come close to the immediate, irreparable damage caused by the destruction of habitat.

Alain founded The International Polar Foundation in 2002 in order to support polar scientific research for the advancement of knowledge, the promotion of informed action on climate change, and the development of a sustainable society.

Tiny creatures on polar seabeds may be uniquely positioned to increase this service, and we are set to explore this new and exciting area of research to understand the role they have in slowing global climate change.

Reconstructions of past Hothouse climates had shown that temperatures had been around six degrees higher on average, and higher still in polar regions, with no polar ice - caps and a temperate to subtropical fauna and flora, as evidenced by the fossil record in these areas.

«The listing not only raised public awareness that climate change is already driving vulnerable species like the polar bear toward extinction, but also forced the Bush administration to adopt the consensus view of the world's scientists on global warming.»

One of their controversial papers was written on polar bears and climate change.

The focus here is on polar bears and how rapid climate change is altering and threatening their existence some 150,000 years after they evolved from brown bears and adapted to the below - zero temperatures of the Earth's northernmost regions.

This is a hands - on investigative STEM focusing on issues of climate change and how it affects the polar caps, and subsequently the polar bear population.

AR: You're right, and I've written two book chapters on hurdles preventing effective media coverage of climate and related complex environmental issues — and one of the big ones is the importance of not overplaying the «hot» material and forgetting the real complexities, e.g., polar bears are not going extinct.

As a far - flung member of the global climate change blogging community, focusing specifically on the possible need for sustainable «polar cities» in the far distant future to house potential survivors of catastrophic global warming events, in say the year 2500 or so (okay, so I am being generous; I don't want to be accussed of fear - mongering in the present).

I think the previous discussion on here about polar bears being able to handle warmer climate and still interbreed with brown bears seems very relevant.

At a time when melting polar sea ice is causing so many to focus on which political power will place its flag over the Arctic, controlling the Northwest Passage shipping lanes and the petroleum resources beneath the sea ice, Miami artist Xavier Cortada has developed a project that engages people across the world below to plant a green flag and native tree to help address global climate change.

If the time horizons on sea level rise and glacial melt are potentially very long, and polar bears probably aren't in immediate danger from climate change, what is the very simple rallying point that is both scientifically defensible and that can be used to get people's attention and pull their heartstrings?

In the tropics is wet and dry - / - in subtropics and temperate climates changes four time a year, WITH EVERY season = migratory birds can tell you that; because they know much more about climate than all the Warmist foot - solders and all climate skeptics combined — on the polar caps climates change twice a year.

Polar amplication is of global concern due to the potential effects of future warming on ice sheet stability and, therefore, global sea level (see Sections 5.6.1, 5.8.1 and Chapter 13) and carbon cycle feedbacks such as those linked with permafrost melting (see Chapter 6)... The magnitude of polar amplification depends on the relative strength and duration of different climate feedbacks, which determine the transient and equilibrium response to external forcings.

Although Holocene climate events are relatively minor on a glacial / interglacial perspective, the small Holocene changes in the polar vortex and atmospheric storminess documented by O'Brien et al. (1995) would probably cause widespread disruption to human society if they were to occur in the future (Keigwin and Boyle 2000:1343).»