SIGNIFICANTLY GLOBAL GAS STUDY MORE...THAN CLIMATE TEMPERATURE CARBON REDUCE NEW NEARLY ESTIMATING AREA
Climate scientists may have ___ underestimated the power of ___ warming from human-generated heat-trapping ___ to shrink the cap ___ sea ice floating on ___ Arctic Ocean. A new ___ concluded that an open-water ___ in summers could be ___ likely in this century ___ had been estimated in ___ latest international review of ___ research released in February.
“___ are huge changes going ___,” said Julienne Stroeve, author ___ this new study. “Just ___ warm waters entering the ___, combined with warming air ___, this is causing destruction ___ the sea ice.”
She ___ concluded that if emissions ___ heat-trapping gases like ___ dioxide were not significantly ___, the region could end ___ with no floating ice ___ summers sometime between 2050 ___ the early decades of ___ next century.
For the ___ study, Dr. Stroeve reviewed ___ six decades of measurements ___ ships, airplanes and satellites ___ the maximum and minimum ___ of Arctic sea ice, which typically expands most in March and shrinks most in September.
With an expert from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, they then compared the observed trends with the projections made for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, using the world’s most advanced computer models of climate.
Dr. Stroeve found that since 1953 the area of sea ice in September has declined at an average rate of 7.8 per cent per decade. Computer climate simulations of the same period had an average rate of ice loss of 2.5 per cent per decade.
She ___ concluded that if emissions ___ heat-trapping gases like ___ dioxide were not significantly ___, the region could end ___ with no floating ice ___ summers sometime between 2050 ___ the early decades of ___ next century.
For the ___ study, Dr. Stroeve reviewed ___ six decades of measurements ___ ships, airplanes and satellites ___ the maximum and minimum ___ of Arctic sea ice, which typically expands most in March and shrinks most in September.
With an expert from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, they then compared the observed trends with the projections made for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, using the world’s most advanced computer models of climate.
Dr. Stroeve found that since 1953 the area of sea ice in September has declined at an average rate of 7.8 per cent per decade. Computer climate simulations of the same period had an average rate of ice loss of 2.5 per cent per decade.
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Have fun....and take care! 252 SEP-2007
