Information about the melting of Arctic ice can be overwhelming, especially when trying to grasp everything from how it is measured to the impacts of ice - free summers in the Arctic to
predictions about future ice melts.
Not exact matches
I suspect that it looked OK in your view or you didn't check; «the paper i cited talks of the hiatus in global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little
Ice Age was global in extent, and that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate
predictions about what will happen in the
future.
There are many who will not like this recent paper published in Nature Communications on principle as it talks of the hiatus in global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little
Ice Age was global in extent, and that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate
predictions about what will happen in the
future.
Scientists are interested in how the shape of this hidden terrain affects how
ice moves — a key factor in making
predictions about the
future of...
The Mercer (1978) ``... a threat of disaster» paper introduced above was fraught with presumptions, guesswork, and spectacularly wrong
predictions about the connections between fossil fuel consumption by humans and
future carbon dioxide (CO2) parts per million (ppm) concentrations, the melting of polar
ice sheets, and an impeding sea level rise disaster.
It regurgitates NSIDC graphs, complete with lines of best fit that reveal the underlying downward trend towards inevitable oblivion, without wondering why scientific
predictions from the NSIDC and elsewhere
about the
future of Arctic
ice are spread across a whole continent of ball parks each the size of Wales.
It's a finding that should be reflected in current climate models to help scientists make more accurate
predictions about future Greenland melt — and could become even more important in the coming years if cloud cover over the
ice sheet were to increase as a result of climate change.