Sentences with phrase «significant ice time»

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There is no evidence for significant increase of CO2 in the medieval warm period, nor for a significant decrease at the time of the subsequent little ice age.

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Our study is significant because, while there are various different estimates for the start and end of the Little Ice Age in different regions of the world, our data show that the most extreme phases occurred at the same time in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

We emphasize that because of the significant influence of sea ice on the climate system, it seems that high priority should be given to developing ways for reconstructing high - resolution (in space and time) sea - ice extent for past climate - change events.

«What Munk didn't realize at the time... is that the model he used for the ice age made a very significant error about the Earth's internal structure,» Mitrovica said, suggesting that the model Munk used didn't accurately reflect how viscous the Earth's internal structure actually is.

But it's gone from being the base for tea to a small but significant ingredient in a broad array of recipes and consumed at any time of day, from ice cream to pancakes, popsicles to protein shakes.

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We emphasize that because of the significant influence of sea ice on the climate system, it seems that high priority should be given to developing ways for reconstructing high - resolution (in space and time) sea - ice extent for past climate - change events.

«Borehole temperatures in the ice sheets spanning the last 6000 years show Antarctica repeatedly warming when Greenland cooled, and vice versa... The phenomena has been called the polar see - saw... Attempts to account for it have included the hypothesis of a south - flowing warm ocean current with a built in time lag... There is (however) no significant delay in the Anarctica climate anomaly...

With the melting of large ice sheets at the end of the Pleistocene there must have been significant volcanic and earthquake activity at this time.

If you ever see a good time series animation of SSTs, you will know that there is significant movement of water and temperatures within the world's oceans (like there is with polar ice extents.)

By the time rising sea levels will hypothetically be a significant problem (based on linear extrapolation), the onset of the next ice age will start to reverse the sea level rise with a vengeance.

Getting back to the New York Times article, so why is the Arctic ice cap shrinking if air temperatures aren't really warming in any significant way?

Using a large volume of 126 proxy temperature records from the Northern Hemisphere, they found (1) a clearly discernible Medieval Warm Period (MWP)(950-1150) and Little Ice Age (LIA)(1450 - 1850), (2) «likely unprecedented» modern temperatures (relative to the last 1,000 years), as well as a (3) «significant» link between the high temperatures of the MWP and recent times and the high solar activity that characterized both periods (the Medieval Maximum and the Modern Grand Maximum).

As to the 500 million year assessment, there was no significant ice for most of the time and any temporary effect is averaged out over the eons.

In the Southern Hemisphere, the trends were smaller and also not significant, but the time of ice maximum was becoming later, contrary to the other three trends.»

«The time of occurrence of the maximum and minimum sea ice coverage in the Arctic showed slight trends towards occurring earlier in the year, although not significant.

I'm very convinced that the physical process of global warming is continuing, which appears as a statistically significant increase of the global surface and tropospheric temperature anomaly over a time scale of about 20 years and longer and also as trends in other climate variables (e.g., global ocean heat content increase, Arctic and Antarctic ice decrease, mountain glacier decrease on average and others), and I don't see any scientific evidence according to which this trend has been broken, recently.

Although the study did not find a significant change in the elevation of the interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet, it shows for the first time that the thinning of the Totten glacier in that region extends to the point where the ice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding liIce Sheet, it shows for the first time that the thinning of the Totten glacier in that region extends to the point where the ice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding liice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding line.

At the same time, local observers reported significant remnants of ice that presented potential hazards to non-ice strengthened vessels.

Luke Trusel, a climate scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, whose similar work was cited in the DeConto paper, says that taken together, his work and DeConto's new work shows that «melting at the [ice shelf] surface can go from insignificant to extremely significant over a short amount of time.

Well they are predicting 2C tonight in Central South America (Tropics - subtropics) as I have said many times on this site, I believe that the highly significant constant increase in antarctica ice extent and thickness may begin to affect the reach of polar air into the southern latitudes if it happens to be directed in the right direction making it go farther north than usual.

There appear to be no significant CH4 - excursions in ice core records of Antarctica or Greenland during these time periods which otherwise might serve as evidence for a massive release of methane into the atmosphere from degrading permafrost terrains.

If the heat loss rate is reduced by using insulation, it will take some time for the water to cool enough to form significant ice.

The administration contends that changing ice levels in the Arctic could require additional U.S. military presence in the region, justifying the need for the Pentagon to commit significant time and resources to monitoring the effects of climate change.

The time series of total Arctic ice extent shows a statistically significant positive trend and correlates negatively with recent high - latitude temperature fluctuations.

The brochure went on to warn that if this continued, the result «would have a marked warming effect on Earth's climate» that could «cause significant melting of the great ice caps and raise sea levels in time.»