(2) the «Sea Surface» temperatures, which are averaged
over the global ice - free oceans (60N to 60S), from the AMSR - E instrument on Aqua.
Not exact matches
Due to
global warming, larger and larger areas of sea
ice melt in the summer and when sea
ice freezes
over in the winter it is thinner and more reduced.
Humanity has now raised
global CO2 levels by more than the rise from roughly 180 to 260 ppm at the end of the last
ice age, albeit in a few hundred years rather than
over more than a few thousand years.
The third process, tidal dissipation, has recently become a focus in planetary science as a potential heat source sufficient enough to create and maintain subsurface
global oceans and viscous processes affecting
ice flow in which disturbances within the crystal lattice allow
ice to flow like honey (
over long enough time periods).
An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation
over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea
ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation, influencing climate on regional and
global scales.
The
global climate models do a good job of simulating the process of sea
ice formation
over large areas in the open ocean.
«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing
global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained
over centuries — melting much of the Greenland
ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»
«Formation of coastal sea
ice in North Pacific drives ocean circulation, climate: New understanding of changes in North Pacific ocean circulation
over the past 1.2 million years could lead to better
global climate models.»
A release of methane in the Arctic could speed the melting of sea
ice and climate change with a cost to the
global economy of up to $ 60 trillion
over coming decades, according to a paper published in the journal Nature.
Arctic sea
ice melt fueled by ever - rising
global temperatures is also opening the already fragile region to increased shipping traffic and may be affecting weather patterns
over Europe, Asia and North America.
What they found was that local destabilization of the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica ultimately causes the entire
ice sheet to fall into the ocean
over several centuries to several thousands of years, gradually adding 3 meters to
global sea levels, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Contrary to what you might expect, the third IPPC report predicted that
global warming would most likely lead to a thickening of the
ice sheet
over the next century, with increased snowfall compensating for any melting cause by warming.
The degradation of the historically stable Filchner - Ronne
Ice Shelf would upset ice on land, triggering runaway melting over a vast region of the continent and accelerating global sea level ri
Ice Shelf would upset
ice on land, triggering runaway melting over a vast region of the continent and accelerating global sea level ri
ice on land, triggering runaway melting
over a vast region of the continent and accelerating
global sea level rise.
A relatively small amount of melting
over a few decades, the authors say, will inexorably lead to the destabilization of the entire
ice sheet and the rise of
global sea levels by as much as 3 meters.
A study examined three different factors: warmer - than - usual surface atmosphere conditions (related to
global warming); sea -
ice thinning prior to the melting season (also related to
global warming); and an August storm that passed
over the Arctic, stirring up the ocean, fracturing the sea
ice and sending it southward to warmer climes.
This
ice sheet alone lowered
global sea - level by
over 20 meters.
A new review analyzing three decades of research on the historic effects of melting polar
ice sheets found that
global sea levels have risen at least six meters, or about 20 feet, above present levels on multiple occasions
over the past three million years.
The Greenland
ice sheet is thought to be one of the largest contributors to
global sea level rise
over the past 20 years, accounting for 0.5 millimeters of the current total of 3.2 millimeters of sea level rise per year.
The Nature article comes as climate scientists published what they said today was the «best ever» collection of evidence for
global warming, including temperature
over land, at sea and in the higher atmosphere, along with records of humidity, sea - level rise, and melting
ice.
The
global mean temperature rise of less than 1 degree C in the past century does not seem like much, but it is associated with a winter temperature rise of 3 to 4 degrees C
over most of the Arctic in the past 20 years, unprecedented loss of
ice from all the tropical glaciers, a decrease of 15 to 20 % in late summer sea
ice extent, rising sealevel, and a host of other measured signs of anomalous and rapid climate change.
This composite of 7.5 km (4.7 mi) per pixel daily
global images, acquired by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), shows water ice clouds over and to the east (right) of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER - B), Opportunity, landing site in Meridiani P
global images, acquired by the Mars
Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), shows water ice clouds over and to the east (right) of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER - B), Opportunity, landing site in Meridiani P
Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), shows water
ice clouds
over and to the east (right) of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER - B), Opportunity, landing site in Meridiani Planum.
While natural
global warming during the ice ages was initiated by increased solar radiation caused by cyclic changes to Earth's orbital parameters, there is no evident mechanism for correcting Anthropogenic Global Warming over the next several cent
global warming during the
ice ages was initiated by increased solar radiation caused by cyclic changes to Earth's orbital parameters, there is no evident mechanism for correcting Anthropogenic
Global Warming over the next several cent
Global Warming
over the next several centuries.
One recent modeling study focused on this mode of instability estimated that the Antarctic
ice sheet has a 1 - in - 20 chance of contributing about 30 centimeters (1.0 feet) to
global average sea - level rise
over the course of this century and 72 centimeters (2.4 feet) by the end of the next century.
This warm phase had begun in the Cretaceous period, peaked in the early Eocene, and continued to the end of the Eocene, when
global temperatures dropped and
ice sheets formed
over the Antarctic.
There is so much
ice there, just one glacier like the Totten glacier can raise
global mean sea level by
over one meter.
Antarctic climate and
ice sheet changes and their relationship to
global scale climate change
over the last 2000 years.
In contrast, the scenario in Fig. 5A, with
global warming peaking just
over 1 °C and then declining slowly, should allow summer sea
ice to survive and then gradually increase to levels representative of recent decades.
In addition, since the
global surface temperature records are a measure that responds to albedo changes (volcanic aerosols, cloud cover, land use, snow and
ice cover) solar output, and differences in partition of various forcings into the oceans / atmosphere / land / cryosphere, teasing out just the effect of CO2 + water vapor
over the short term is difficult to impossible.
«suggesting that Arctic warming will continue to greatly exceed the
global average
over the coming century, with concomitant reductions in terrestrial
ice masses and, consequently, an increasing rate of sea level rise.»
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.
However, atmospheric CO2 content plays an important internal feedback role.Orbital - scale variability in CO2 concentrations
over the last several hundred thousand years covaries (Figure 5.3) with variability in proxy records including reconstructions of
global ice volume (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005), climatic conditions in central Asia (Prokopenko et al., 2006), tropical (Herbert et al., 2010) and Southern Ocean SST (Pahnke et al., 2003; Lang and Wolff, 2011), Antarctic temperature (Parrenin et al., 2013), deep - ocean temperature (Elder eld et al., 2010), biogeochemical conditions in the Northet al., 2008).
But the same paucity of
ice, which Arctic climate specialists say is driven increasingly by
global greenhouse warming, has made it easy for an enormous bulk carrier, the MV Nordic Barents, to achieve a new feat of northern navigation — carrying more than 40,000 tons of concentrated iron ore from Kirkenes, Norway, along the Northern Sea Route
over Russia and, as of yesterday, out of the Arctic Ocean on its way to a Chinese port.
They point to the new sea
ice in Antarctica and say that
global warming is
over.
RC comment # 30 says... «They point to the new sea
ice in Antarctica and say that
global warming is
over».
After scientists have done the hard work of working out these relations, it is possible to use one
ice - core record to represent broader regions IF you restrict consideration to the parts that are widely coherent, so it is O.K. to plot a smoothed version of an Antarctic temperature record against CO2
over long times and discuss the relation as if it is
global, but a lot of background is required.
The most exciting thing is we'll get a chance to see the relative strength of all of these
over the next few years, and it will most interesting to compare the total decade of 2010 - 2019 to previous decades in terms of the trends in Arctic Sea
ice,
Global Temps, and of course, OHC.
Global mean temperature since the last
ice age has oscillated quasi-periodically between about + / - 1 % of its mean;
over that time, the mean has slightly declined, as have the maxima and minima of the excursions.
In a more recent paper, our own Stefan Rahmstorf used a simple regression model to suggest that sea level rise (SLR) could reach 0.5 to 1.4 meters above 1990 levels by 2100, but this did not consider individual processes like dynamic
ice sheet changes, being only based on how
global sea level has been linked to
global warming
over the past 120 years.
Orbital forcing causes
ice ages or ends them by redistributing incoming solar radiation
over seasons and latitudes so that
ice sheet growth or decay is more or less favorable on a regional basis, with a resulting
global average albedo feedback.)
The earth has had significant
Global Warming for some 20,000 years now... The only real argument is to the degree that mans activity has augmented that... We just came out of one - point - five - million years of continuous glaciation with sheets of two mile thick
ice down past the 44th parallel... I will cheerfully deal with warming issues
over that, any day...
You may now understand why
global temperature, i.e. ocean heat content, shows such a strong correlation with atmospheric CO2
over the last 800,000 years — as shown in the
ice core records.
(1) One is the
ice sheet and glacier mechanical collapse, which doesn't require a whole lot more warming, but will happen with some set minimum amount of warming
over some time period; and (2) the other is
global warming that keeps increasing beyond the level needed to cause # 1, which among other things will perhaps lead to positive carbon feedbacks (e.g., from melting permafrost and hydrates).
In one projected event, large parts of the
ice sheet melt and drain into the ocean
over the next millennia, raising
global sea levels by several tens of meters.
Over all, the analysts as a group see no deviation from the long - term trend toward thinning and dwindling summer sea
ice given how the Arctic tends to amplify the long - term
global warming trend.
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Here's a link to a graph of
global sea
ice area
over the past 30 years.
Over the past millennium this graph, most of which is obtained from Antarctic
ice cores, shows CO2 holding steady at 280 ± 5 ppm up to 1800, when
global population was about a billion people and sailing ships and the horse - and - buggy were the most advanced forms of transportation, consuming relatively little energy per capita compared with today.
There are contexts in which the statement would be true: what will happen to the polar
ice caps, crop land, deserts, etc., as a result of
global warming
over time.
So, while my
over interpretation has lead to a clear error in relationshipt to the dominant source of Greenland precipitation by placing it to far north, it does not effect the conclusion that Greenland
ice cores are a regional, not a hemispheric or
global proxy.
Ironically, during the 1970s while some (including NASA's James Hansen) were hysterically promoting the schizoid fears of a new
ice age hitting the world in a few decades, a new frenzy
over Global Warming and Climate Change was just beginning at Scripps Ocenaographic Institute in San Diego, CA.