Sentences with phrase «summer polar ice cap»

* 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.

Warm air and surface water are melting the summer polar ice cap.

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As both a movie - tie in and Olympic competition, the timing of Ice Age: Continental Drift — Arctic Games «release is nearly impeccable, even it's polar cap - based sporting recreations evoke the Winter games rather than the imminent summer competitions.

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.

Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

Melting of glaciers and polar ice caps: Large ice formations, like glaciers and the polar ice caps, naturally melt back a bit each summer.

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Back in 2009, Al Gore boldly declared that «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years.»

During this past summer's rollout of the EPA's historic climate initiative, the president and his allies went to great lengths to reframe the climate change debate around the health of our children and the elderly, as opposed to the fate of the polar bears and the melting ice caps that have long served as the de facto mascots of the climate movement.

Serreze says if these warmer - than - average conditions persist, the Arctic polar ice cap could disappear in late summer within a couple of decades.

But if the winters were still cold enough to freeze the polar regions (it wouldn't matter whether the temperature was -20 degC or -22 degC for example) a cooler summer would thaw less of it and the ice cap would expand.

The rhetoric and predictions of global warming acolytes have been every bit as confusing in the United States, with former vice president and carbon - credit entrepreneur Al Gore telling an audience in a 2009 speech that «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years.»

Al Gore, unfazed by his climate conviction, went on to claim «the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months will be completely ice - free within the next five to seven years,»

Satellite photographs show that the polar ice cap at the time of maximum summer melt — about now — has been reduced by about 6 percent since 1980.

... Many scientists predict — shockingly — that the entire north polar ice cap may be completely gone during summer months during the first term of the next president.

With polar sea ice [not polar ice caps] for about 30 years we have been fairly accurately measuring it, and in arctic it has significantly decreased, 2007 and 2012 were lowest ice extent during summer.

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