Sentences with phrase «striking ice changes»

Most experts deeply probing the Arctic ice, ocean and atmosphere say that the particularly striking ice changes of late probably can be traced to a significant dose of natural variability as well as a contribution from heat trapped by the atmosphere's building greenhouse - gas blanket.

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One thing that struck me, however, was that although the evidence of climate change is overwhelming in «Chasing Ice,» there's very little about slowing or stopping the planet from warming.

NPR has always struck me as fairly balanced in that they always give both sides of the story, no matter how nutty or fucking ridiculous the other side is (like those who still believe abortions cause cancer, climate change isn't real because there's still ice in the oceans, etc).

[44] Factors limiting or threatening current population levels include ship strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, and changes in sea - ice coverage associated with climate change.

In particular archers wielding ice - arrows are worth taking down before anything else, as being struck by ice has a change of slowing you down for a few seconds, and the archers will simply bombard you from afar whenever you get into a brawl with a melee enemy.

``... The striking Arctic change was as much a result of ice moving as melting, many say.

After an intense week of editing a paper on the need for national academies and royal societies to undertake environmental health risk assessments for climate change AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, especially to adopt the IPCC's best - case emissions scenario, RCP2.6 (because the IPCC does not and will not make recommendations), followed by a look at the fires burning in Siberia and the sea ice thinning in the Arctic, it struck me...

I was also struck in the same conference by the repeated dismissal of the MWP as only a North Atlantic phenomenon while at the same time, and often in the same talk, the melting of Greenland ice was touted as the major threat of CO2 - induced climate change.

Using revolutionary new techniques, a team led by Carnegie's Malcolm Guthrie has made a striking discovery about how ice behaves under pressure, changing ideas that date back almost 50 years.

One of the most striking changes is the decline of sea ice concurrent with changes in atmospheric circulation and increased surface air temperature.

What is striking though, is that amidst all the criticism nobody has challenged our core finding: blogs on which man - made climate change and its impacts are downplayed are far removed from the scientific literature, at least regarding the topic of shrinking Arctic sea ice and the resulting future threat to polar bears.

The most striking change in the Arctic in recent years has been the reduction in summer sea ice in 2007.