Sentences with phrase «polar sea ice»

According to climate models, anthropogenic CO2 emissions drive trends in polar sea ice.

If there is more than this warmer, if the arctic polar sea ice completely melts within 5 years.

Although a recent downward trend in coverage is clearly visible by naked eye inspection, Goddard invites us to believe there has ``... been no net gain or loss of polar sea ice since records began.»

Recent trends in the decline of Arctic polar sea ice extent continued in 2016.

Is polar sea ice at a record low this winter of 2017/18?

I'm not sure how realistic that is; Doesn't the preponderance of polar sea ice melting come from ocean heat, not radiation?

Naturally many factors influence polar sea ice extent, such as weather patterns, winds,

Total polar sea ice covered 6.26 million square miles (16.21 million square kilometers), which is 790,000 square miles (2 million square kilometers) less than the average global minimum extent for 1981 - 2010 — the equivalent of having lost a chunk of sea ice larger than Mexico.

So the north polar sea ice has been steadily thinning in depth and shrinking in area for more than 30 years.

Variations in polar sea ice on short time scales, up or down, are essentially meaningless, my contacts studying the cryosphere always stress.

By the mid-2020s, sea level rise around Manhattan and Long Island could be up to 10 inches, assuming the rapid melting of polar sea ice continues.

That these «events» should have a corresponding counter event is what concerns me wrt polar sea ice melt.

Southern polar sea ice reached its peak at the end of August, and November, December, January and February all saw rapid declines.

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.

These line graphs plot monthly deviations and overall trends in polar sea ice from 1979 to 2017 as measured by satellites.

Meanwhile, they said in interviews and in the summary, evidence of increasing warming has shown up in retreating glaciers, thinning polar sea ice, retreating snow packs, warmer nights, and elsewhere.

Even the U.S. Department of the Interior has now proposed that polar bears be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because polar sea ice is melting — an extraordinary admission for an administration philosophically aligned with the skeptics.

Naturally many factors influence polar sea ice extent, such as weather patterns, winds, -LSB-...]

With that in mind, let us limit our discussion in this essay to the Arctic, i.e., the region which has shown a decrease in polar sea ice.

Current scientific studies project that over the next few decades climate change will lead to an increase in polar sea ice melt, rising sea levels, and natural disasters.

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.

The mean of the model ensemble is reducing biases of each model and provides the best estimate of the signal of the polar sea ice loss.

The Arctic warming and the decline of the polar sea ice, do these phenomena have a connection to the cooling trends of winter in the Eurasia?

Much of the polar sea ice (frozen ocean water) that blankets the Arctic Ocean and surrounds the Antarctic continent in winter melts during the summer as temperatures do get above freezing.

«MODIS observations of polar sea ice were combined with observations of Antarctica made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's AVHRR sensor — the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.»

Seasonally, when the North polar sea ice and ice sheet has been contracting, the South polar sea ice and ice sheet has been expanding.

Those observations include everything from the atmosphere to the oceans to the ice sheets to polar sea ice to land cover including vegetation and snow.

We're not going to have to wait all that long to see weird things happening with the weather once the polar sea ice is gone from the North Pole, kim's deliriums notwithstanding.