Sentences with phrase «on polar extremes»

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The Barthian attack on the orders of creation was so devastating that some Lutherans veered to the radical polar extreme of situation ethics.

Professor Baldwin added: «Natural large pressure fluctuations in the polar stratosphere tend to last a long time — at least a month, and we see this reflected as surface pressure changes that look very much like the North Atlantic Oscillation — which has significant effects on weather and extreme events across Europe.»

Earthly life has proved remarkably hardy in similar extreme environments such as hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and polar ice.

It normally reaches its widest extent in the southern hemisphere in the spring (August and September), as extreme cold temperatures in the stratosphere facilitate chemical reactions on the surface of polar stratospheric clouds.

Permanent colonies would almost certainly be restricted to the polar regions due to the extreme daytime temperatures elsewhere on the planet, although excursions to the other parts of the planet would be feasible with appropriate measures

She works on polar seas, on chemosynthetic ecosystems and other extreme habitats of the ocean.

It's the polar extreme of Cadillac CUE, which relies on touch surfaces, somewhat to the detriment of the user.

The rise of CO2 from 270ppm to now over 400ppm, the extent of equatorial and sub tropical deforestation, the soot deposits on the polar ice caps, the increase in atmospheric water vapour due to a corresponding increase in ocean temps and changes in ocean currents, the extreme ice albedo currently happening in the arctic etc, etc are all conspiring in tandem to alter the climate as we know it.

In order to response needs of increase polar activities, we propose to focus on detection of sea ice extremes and automatic production of «sea ice warnings» products.

It is caused by chemical reactions that take place primarily on the surface of polar stratospheric clouds, ice particles or liquid droplets which form at high altitudes in extreme cold.

Ozone holes are caused by chemical reactions that take place primarily on the surface of polar stratospheric clouds, ice particles, or liquid droplets, which form at high altitudes in the extreme cold of the polar regions.

His research focusses on understanding and predicting climate variability and change in the polar regions, including the response of Arctic extreme weather to climate change.

«The Pentads centred on 1882 was recognised as the first pentad for which all the latitude bands (except the polar extremes) were represented by some data.

This is extreme wishful thinking on their part since recent research finds black soot as being the major factor for polar sea ice loss.

NASA's climate experts are on record for predicting all sorts of climate catastrophes, including extreme warming of the world's «higher» latitudes (the world's polar / subpolar regions).

With El Nino firing off in the Pacific and polar amplification pushing to ever - greater extremes in the Arctic, 2015 is following hot on the heels of 2014's record warmth.

CO2 saves water, grows more food on less water, makes t warmer at night reducing frost damage, supposedly warms the polar regions more then the tropics and sub tropics, creating less energy to drive extreme weather.

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?

25 kg / m ² is about the global average of water vapour on the air that goes from 1 or 2 kg / m ² (extreme winter polar conditions) up to 80 kg / m ² (near the equatorial convective «chimney» at the confluence of the trade winds)

Released as officials from 190 countries meet in Durban, South Africa for the 17th UN Summit on Climate Change to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other impacts.

As one of the world's leading polar scientists with more than 47 years» experience of visiting and measuring ice at the poles, he provided a lucid and sobering explanation of the impact of global warming on the poles, and the way in which the disappearance of polar ice is itself hastening global warming, and contributing to extreme weather events such as the March blizzards preventing some people attending the conference.

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).

First, this approach saves the parties money because no time is wasted on the lawyers bouncing back and forth with extreme proposals everyone knows will not work, hoping that the parties will finally land somewhere in the middle of the two polar positions from which they start.