Sentences with phrase «saw less sea ice»

The only other year on record that saw less sea ice in April was 2016.

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As the Arctic summers are getting warmer we may see an acceleration of global warming, because reduced sea ice in the Arctic will remove less CO2 from the atmosphere, Danish scientists report.

He said that sensitivity includes water vapour and arctic sea ice, but I suspect that the changes in sea ice in the models are much less than we are seeing in practice.

However recently I've found myself wavering on the issue of how fast we'll see a transition to a virtually sea ice free state (less than 1M km ^ 2 off the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the north of Greenland) and it's because of the PIOMAS volume results.

Though most of the CMIP5 models project a nearly ice - free Arctic (sea ice extent less than 1 × 106 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years) at the end of summer by 2100 in the RCP8.5 scenario (see Section 12.4.6.1), some show large changes in the near term as well.

Taylor also debunked the notion that less sea ice means less polar bears by pointing out that southern regions of the bears» home with low levels of ice are seeing booming bear populations.

It's still cutting - edge research and there's no smoking gun, but there's evidence that with less sea ice, you put a lot of heat from the ocean into the atmosphere, and the circulation of the atmosphere responds to that... We've seen a tendency for autumns with low sea ice cover to be followed by a negative Arctic Oscillation.

«Now I think we're seeing a feedback that involves less sea ice that allows more heat to be transported into the atmosphere.»

If sea ice cover was 50 % less 5,000 years ago and polar bears were very much alive and well, it is hard to see how claims of their extinction are credible from future ice loss.

At the same time, the ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas is seeing less multiyear ice drifting in from the Canadian Arctic, with more first - year ice prevalent in 2011 than in past years.