Sentences with phrase «rising polar temperatures»

I guess it's better to burn it and turn it into CO2 than to just lets it escape to the atmosphere because of rising polar temperatures.

Rising polar temperatures caused the average thickness of winter Arctic sea ice to decrease from about 12 feet to 6 feet between 1978 and 2008, and thinner ice melts more readily.

Not exact matches

But it could leave the polar bear at risk from an influx of infections as global temperatures rise.

PoLAR - FIT scientists travel to the Arctic to collect geologic evidence about how the region responded to rising temperatures in the Pliocene.

If adaptation for survival in the Arctic environment has led to a less versatile immune system, then Arctic species such as the polar bear may be at risk from an influx of pathogens as global temperatures rise, the researchers warn.

The last decade has been one of the warmest on record for the polar region, with 2007 summer temperatures having risen 9 degrees Fahrenheit above average in some areas.

With footage of frolicking polar bear cubs, mesmerizing time - lapse video of a frozen waterfall thawing in spring, and an up - close look at how rising temperatures are ravaging those environments, Frozen Planet has something for everyone — even those whose tastes run more to sitcoms than documentary.

Temperatures in the northern polar region have already risen by 1.6 degrees Celsius (2.88 degrees Fahrenheit) since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

This difference, the researchers say, suggests that tropical species may be more vulnerable to rising ocean temperatures than are temperate or polar species.

Simulations of how the DNA changed over time suggest that polar bear populations rose and fell with the temperature.

Due to rising water temperatures, the Atlantic cod is moving northwards and might take over the habitat of the native polar cod.

The planet is getting warmer, ocean temperatures are rising, the polar ice caps are melting, and all of the incontrovertible science of climate change is that more extreme - weather events are an inevitable consequence.

Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting polar icecaps; and rising seas inundating coastal areas.

In the long term, changes in sea level were of minor importance to rainfall patterns in north western Sumatra With the end of the last Ice Age came rising temperatures and melting polar ice sheets, which were accompanied by an increase in rainfall around Indonesia and many other regions of the world..

Rising Seas: Warmer ocean water temperatures, the pumping of ground water, and melting of the polar ice sheets have added water to the oceans, contributing to sea level rise.

Cause rising of the average temperature of the Earth could lead to effect - the melting of polar ices, soil desertification, and extinction of certain species of flora and fauna.

it is very likely that the current trend will continue with polar temperatures rising much faster than the rest of the world [two and a half times faster at the moment.]

Here are some possible choices — in order of increasing sophistication: * All (or most) scientists agree (the principal Gore argument) * The 20th century is the warmest in 1000 years (the «hockeystick» argument) * Glaciers are melting, sea ice is shrinking, polar bears are in danger, etc * Correlation — both CO2 and temperature are increasing * Sea levels are rising * Models using both natural and human forcing accurately reproduce the detailed behavior of 20th century global temperature * Modeled and observed PATTERNS of temperature trends («fingerprints») of the past 30 years agree

Excerpt: Livermore CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2005 If humans continue to use fossil fuels in a business as usual manner for the next several centuries, the polar ice caps will be depleted, ocean sea levels will rise by seven meters and median air temperatures will soar 14.5 degrees warmer than current day.

Global climate models have successfully predicted the rise in temperature as greenhouse gases increased, the cooling of the stratosphere as the troposphere warmed, polar amplification due the ice - albedo effect and other effects, greater increase in nighttime than in daytime temperatures, and the magnitude and duration of the cooling from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.

Our new paper shows that «on the ground» management can help polar bears into a better future IF we also strongly mitigate temperature rise by lowering future emissions from their current trajectory.

The corresponding future temperatures in Greenland are comparable to those inferred for the last interglacial period 125,000 years ago, when paleoclimatic information suggests reductions of polar land ice extent and 4 to 6 m of sea level rise.

My intuition is that the abnormal warming of the poles will continue, so a 5C rise in global temperature would mean perhaps a 15C rise in polar temperatures, and that should be able to melt Greenland in short order.

The longer term risk is that rising temperatures will melt glaciers and polar ice caps, raising sea level and displacing coastal residents worldwide.

When talking about climate change, most of us imagine a smattering of statistics flowing across charts and figures showing rising temperatures, the thawing of ice on mountain caps and polar... Read more»

The northern latitude areas have benefited from rising temperatures due to the «polar amplification», but when the process is reversed they may suffer the most.

As the greenhouse effect thinned the ice caps, Arctic air temperatures were rising, driving polar winds south and east.

Among all the statistics about temperature increase, polar melting and sea level rise associated with a warming world, the impact on hundreds of millions of people forced to leave their homes due to climate change is often not fully considered.

«Well, it's been calculated a few degrees rise in the Earth's temperature would melt the polar ice caps.

Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW)- when temperatures rise dramatically in the polar stratosphere in a mater of days.

Thus, the concept of increasing CO2 is causing increasing sea level rise from polar ice melt embodies two assumptions that need to be established with physical evidence: 1) the extent to which increased CO2 will cause increased temperatures, assumptions or models do not suffice; and 2) the extent to which increased temperatures will cause Antarctic ice melt.

changing landscapes Rising temperatures and changing patterns of rain and snow are forcing trees and plants around the world to move toward polar regions and up mountain slopes.

Evidence regarding the response of polar ice sheets and sea level rise to rising temperatures is considered in the trial of carbon dioxide and co-conspirators.

As for the facts concerning temperature development in the high northern hemisphere, the over-proportional rise in the wider polar region is well established and undisputed.

This gives rise to enormous variations in temperature in the polar stratosphere between December and March.

Global warming leads to rising temperatures of the oceans and the earth» surface causing melting of polar ice caps, rise in sea levels and also unnatural patterns of precipitation such as flash floods, excessive snow or desertification.

The strongest evidence in support of climate change is the melting of the polar ice caps, Langcake acknowledges, noting the temperature in Antarctica rose by 2.5 degrees centigrade between 1945 and 1995 and a Norwegian study supporting the idea of a rapidly accelerating melt at both poles, but claims this theory may not be borne out over a longer period.

The high and persistent temperatures this fall are particularly extraordinary, scientists said, because the region has already plunged into «polar night,» the time of year when the sun no longer rises over the North Pole.

It is unprecedented in its scale and scope, and examines evidence of changes in ocean temperature and ecosystems, rising acidification and methane levels, and massive shrinkage of the polar ice caps.

According to the conservationists, Earth's steadily rising temperature is causing the polar bear's habitat to melt.

«Research has suggested that average temperatures may have risen by as much as 3C in some parts of the Antarctic over the past few decades,» said Rod Downie, polar programme manager for the World Wide Fund for Nature.

In the latest attempt to cost the impact of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and the continuous rise in global average temperatures, all as a consequence of fossil fuel combustion and other human action, the economist Chris Hope of the University of Cambridge and the polar expert Kevin Schaefer of the University of Colorado have turned their sights on the Arctic.

Record polar ice cap melt dick heads... absolute correlation between Co2 and temperature rise... Deal with it....

Therein, Pope Francis echoed President Obama's tune, claiming there exists «solid scientific consensus» that human activities are causing a «disturbing warming» of the climate, which left unchecked will result in a type of planetary Armageddon manifested by escalating temperatures, melting polar ice caps, rising seas, more frequent and more severe weather, ecosystem degradation, and plant and animal extinctions, all of which he claimed will severely affect humanity.

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on December 27 that it is proposing formally to list the polar bear as «threatened» with extinction, because rising Arctic temperature is causing the loss of sea ice, on which polar bears depend... Continue reading →

Because polar bears depend on a habitat that literally melts as temperatures rise, these animals are iconic symbols of the negative effects of AGW.»

But, their own data on polar bear populations contradict claims that rising air temperatures are causing a decline in polar bear populations.

As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped.

Using maps and data collected, citizen scientist students can explore the work of many leading scientists as they investigate why the numbers of frogs, polar bears, or penguins are decreasing as their special habitats are effected by rising temperatures.

One shows a nonlinear transition to a new stable state in < 10 years when polar temperature rises above − 5 °C (13 °C above present), whereas the other shows a more linear transition.