Hi iceman, Sorry for the tardy reply, that pesky real life thing again...:) The reason there is so little excitement about
the record high sea ice extent in the antarctic (aside from it having no appealing potential victims, like polar bears) versus the record low arctic sea ice is probably because the southern record is only a matter of 2 % anamoly, whereas in the north we are now looking at levels over 40 % below average.
We are currently in the midst of the the third and quite possibly worst global coral bleaching event in history, thanks to
record high sea temperatures caused by a strong El Niño and climate change.
We are currently in the midst of the the third and quite possibly worst global coral bleaching event in history, thanks to
record high sea temperatures caused by a strong...
Whether it's a killer winter in South America, increased snow cover globally, record Arctic sea ice recovery, recovering glaciers in the Alps,
record high sea ice extent in Antarctica, extreme cold in southeast Europe, or 5 consecutive colder than normal European winters, just to name a few, the ominous signs of global cooling are compounding rapidly.
This year has seen
record high sea surface temperatures in the Nino3.4 region, the area of the Pacific Ocean where these events are commonly measured.
Much warmer - than - average temperatures engulfed most of the world's oceans during June 2016, with
record high sea surface temperatures across parts of the central and southwest Pacific Ocean, northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and across parts of the northeastern Indian Ocean.
Record high sea surface temperatures across most of the North Indian Ocean, along with parts of the central equatorial and southwest Pacific Ocean contributed to the April warmth.
Record high sea surface temperatures across most of the Indian Ocean, along with parts of the Atlantic Ocean, and southwest Pacific Ocean contributed to the May warmth.
From Hawaii's flurry of hurricanes, to
record high sea ice in Antarctica, and a heat wave that cooked the Australian Open like shrimp on a barbie, 2014 saw some wild weather.
This year's record low happened just two years after several monthly
record high sea ice extents in Antarctica and decades of moderate sea ice growth.
Not exact matches
With
record amounts of oil all over the place, including the fully loaded ships at
sea, oil prices are artificially very
high!
«With
record amounts of Oil all over the place, including the fully loaded ships at
sea, Oil prices are artificially Very
High!
He tweeted on Friday, «With
record amounts of oil all over the place, including the fully loaded ships at
sea, oil prices are artificially very
high!»
Whether they are going on a
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Record complete.
In addition to the Asia heat wave, those events were the
record global heat in 2016 and the growth and persistence of a large swath of
high ocean temperatures, nicknamed «the Blob,» in the Bering
Sea off the coast of Alaska.
In South Asia, the
highest daily wet - bulb temperatures, which include both heat and humidity, have been
recorded around the Persian Gulf and Red
Sea, the Indus and Ganges river valleys and eastern China.
Both peaks are well below the
highest level
recorded in the Baltic
Sea after Chernobyl, which was 1,000 Becquerels per cubic meter.
The
record follows a trend over the past three years of anomalously
high winter ice extents, providing a stark contrast to the inexorable decline of Arctic
sea ice
Because water expands as it warms, that heat also meant that
sea surface heights were
record high, measuring about 2.75 inches
higher than at the beginning of the satellite altimeter
record in 1993.
Ocean Only: The August global
sea surface temperature was 1.17 °F (0.65 °C) above the 20th century average of 61.4 °F (16.4 °C), the
highest on
record for August.
But as long as greenhouse gases continue to build up in the atmosphere unabated, the scales are heavily weighted toward more
record heat, ever lower
sea ice levels and ever
higher seas.
Late last year,
sea temperatures in the Pacific were still 1.5 °C
higher than normal, with 30 °C
recorded where the International Date Line meets the equator, indicating that El Nino was still going strong.
Ocean Only: The June - August global
sea surface temperature was 1.13 °F (0.63 °C), above the 20th century average of 61.5 °F (16.4 °C), the
highest for June - August on
record.
The
sea ice fringing Antarctica also set a
record low for its annual summer minimum (with the seasons opposite in the Southern Hemisphere), though this was in sharp contrast to the
record highs racked up in recent years.
The Arctic has been one of the areas of the world that has seen sky -
high temperatures this year, which have led to
record - low
sea ice levels.
During 2016, average temperatures were the
highest reported since
record keeping began in 1880, reaching 1.69 degrees F (0.94 degrees C) above the average for land and
sea surfaces in the 20th century.
Examining museum skins revealed that this new species was also smaller overall with a longer and denser coat; field
records showed that it occurred in a unique area of the northern Andes Mountains at 5,000 to 9,000 feet above
sea level — elevations much
higher than the known species of olingo.
Antarctic
sea ice extent reached a
record high this year on 22 September, topping 20 million square kilometers for the first time since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which owns the plant,
recorded high levels of radioactivity in a drainage ditch that runs to the
sea from the tank, but could not detect anything in the seawater itself.
A: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the
sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a
record for the
highest extent of
sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s.
The region has set
records for low
sea ice levels and
high temperatures in recent years.
The ongoing stretch of
record California
sea lion strandings along the California Coast that began in 2013 coincided with a change in the diet of
sea lions from
high - energy anchovies and sardines.
Those
high temperatures have kept Arctic
sea ice to
record low levels; the Arctic looks to see a
record low winter maximum
sea ice area for the third year in a row.
Based on the fossil
record of this group, along with Isthminia, we propose that a marine ancestor of Inia invaded Amazonia during late Miocene eustatic
sea - level
highs.
The average global
sea surface temperature tied with 2010 as the second
highest for January — August in the 135 - year period of
record, behind 1998, while the average land surface temperature was the fifth
highest.
All of that heat in the oceans also raised global
sea levels to a new
record high, more than 2.5 inches above what it was in 1993, as water expands as it heats up.
In previous years, Antarctic
sea ice hit
record highs, potentially due to changing ocean conditions linked to the melting of land - bound glaciers.
«We have recovered two new
high - resolution paleomagnetic
records of the Laschamp Excursion (~ 41,000 calendar years B.P.) from deep -
sea sediments of the western North Atlantic Ocean.
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 oceans are heating up: Not only was Earth's temperature
record warm in 2014, but so were the global oceans, as
sea surface temperatures and the heat of the upper oceans also hit
record highs.
Across the world's oceans, the September — November average
sea surface temperature was 0.84 °C (1.51 °F) above the 20th century average of 16.0 °C (60.7 °F), the
highest for September — November on
record, surpassing the previous
record set last year by 0.27 °C (0.15 °F).
In August global
sea surface temperatures reached
record levels — the average temperature was 1.17 degrees Fahrenheit
higher than the 20th century average.
For the oceans, the November global
sea surface temperature was 0.84 °C (1.51 °F) above the 20th century average of 15.8 °C (60.4 °F), the
highest for November on
record, surpassing the previous
record set last year by 0.20 °C (0.36 °F).
For instance, the BAMS study found that anomalous wind patterns led to the
record -
high Antarctic
sea ice extent in 2014.
And while some events, like the U.S. winter storms and the
record high Antarctic
sea ice extent, could be pinned to a particular cause, that cause could not be linked to climate change.
The March — May globally averaged
sea surface temperature was 1.40 °F above the 20th century average of 61.0 °F — the
highest for March — May in the 1880 — 2016
record, surpassing the previous
record of 2015 by 0.20 °F.
The June globally averaged
sea surface temperature was 1.39 °F above the 20th century monthly average of 61.5 °F — the
highest global ocean temperature for June in the 1880 — 2016
record, surpassing the previous
record set in 2015 by 0.05 °F.
The June — August globally averaged
sea surface temperature was 1.39 °F above the 20th century average of 61.5 °F the
highest for June — August in the 1880 — 2016
record, surpassing the previous
record of 2015 by 0.02 °F.
The May globally averaged
sea surface temperature was 1.37 °F above the 20th century monthly average of 61.3 °F — the
highest global ocean temperature for May in the 1880 — 2016
record, surpassing the previous
record set in 2015 by 0.09 °F.
The April globally averaged
sea surface temperature was 1.44 °F above the 20th century monthly average of 60.9 °F — the
highest global ocean temperature for April in the 1880 — 2016
record, surpassing the previous
record set in 2015 by 0.25 °F and besting 1998, the last time a similar strength El Niño occurred, by 0.43 °F.