Sentences with phrase «shrinking polar ice cap»

Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.

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* The late - summer polar ice cap, already at historic lows today, would shrink only another quarter and hold steady by century's end, instead of melting by more than three - quarters with no let - up in sight.

Over all, open water has spread in the Arctic this summer nearly as much as it did last summer, when polar experts said the ice cap shrank far more than had been measured since satellites started scanning the region 30 years ago — and probably more than it had shrunk in a century or more.

Even if greenhouse gas emissions were completely stopped today, most of the world's glaciers would still disappear or dwindle to remnants by the end of this century, just from the CO2 that's already in the atmosphere, while the polar ice caps will likely keep shrinking for centuries to come.

Hot topic: The plight of polar bears captures the hearts of many, but are the ice caps still shrinking?

As the Arctic ice cap shrinks during the coming decades, the chemistry of the polar troposphere should also change.

Among Hayden's assertions were that: «Yes, the polar ice caps are shrinking... on Mars.»

According to the report, polar ice caps are melting, water supplies around the world are shrinking, [continue reading...]

Although arctic experts said there were many signs of warming, including a thinning and shrinking of the polar ice cap, there was no way to link a patch of sun - dappled water at the pole to climate change.

Climate Change: As a result of climate change, glaciers are melting faster; the polar ice caps are shrinking; trees are blooming earlier; more people are dying in heat waves; species are migrating, and eventually many will become extinct.

A trio of despondent mammals — a monkey, a polar bear and a kangaroo — living in hellish landscapes of deforestation, drought and shrinking ice caps.