Sentences with phrase «possible polar cap»

Not exact matches

If it happened in the last 100,000 years, it might be possible someday to extract traces of its effects from deep within the polar ice caps.

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

Same goes for AMOC, though that seem more possible then polar caps disappearing in what could be considered a relatively short time period.