Moreover, the Kilimanjaro glacier is melting in a way that suggests it is probably not caused by the supposedly CO 2-induced higher temperatures but by reduced precipitation.
If you go to Alaska, which is where I'm headed, we're seeing ice melting in the Bering Sea as much as a month earlier than had been the case for decades.
Lilliputian's engineering miracle was in designing a tiny solid-oxide fuel cell that instead of melting everything in its vicinity is merely warm to the touch.
The Washington Post recently featured a front page article about melting ice in Antarctica.
Its stock started melting down in April, after news broke about accounting irregularities at CUC.
Old ice, also called multiyear ice, tends to be thicker ice and less prone to melting out in summer.
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Also, experts worried melting snow in Minnesota would send more water south.
Some climate change naysayers point to Antarctic ice on the rise, as if that makes up for melting ice in the Arctic Circle.
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Melting ice in the Arctic will have implications for the rest of the world in terms of its impact on global sea level, atmospheric and oceanic circulation.
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Environmentalists point to Inuit communities threatened by melting ice in Greenland, and those living around the fast-shrinking Lake Chad in Africa, as among many already feeling the effects.
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That means more melting ice in the Arctic, dumping fresh water into the salty sea and making a mess of the all-important Gulf jet stream, which makes northern U.S. habitable.
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The Arctic's importance has gained extra strategic and economic significance as melting ice in the polar region strengthens the feasibility of nations to use the Northern Sea Route (NSR) across the top of Russia and the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago.
It concluded that speedups in melting rates are strictly short-term, transient phenomena, occurring primarily during summer months.
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Until recently, it was thought that any melting going on in the ice caps was fairly gentle.
For instance, the melting snow pack in the Sierras could reduce the water supply for cities and agriculture.
To raise the pile on my rug, ice cubes are melting on dents in the rug where furniture was relocated.
Dr. CORELL: Yes, the ice is melting much earlier in the year than in the past, and it's freezing up much later in the year.
When temperatures warm more, the melting will come in earnest, prompting many residents to get water pumps ready at their businesses and homes to prevent flooding.
To signal that his party is winding down, Mr. Brenner usually makes a dessert by melting milk chocolate in a pan for fondue and sets that out with sliced bananas, strawberries and marshmallows for guests to dip in the chocolate.
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In March this year the World Glacier Monitoring Service reported that glaciers are melting at their fastest rate in the past 5000 years.
If she is living in a melting pot like New York, she is global on steroids.
Nobody is currently predicting a full scale polar ice cap melting, not even in worst case scenarios.
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If he fails in these early season conditions, it will all be back in the melting pot.
Melting ice, especially in Greenland and the Arctic, is also thought to contribute to global warming, Zwally said.
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Mr. OVERPECK: Add in the melting disintegration of Greenland and you are talking about quite a bit more fresh water than we have now.
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About half of the route is across permafrost, which poses particular challenges because of the danger of subsidence caused by melting at the surface in summer.
He warned that there is one potential disaster looming: the predicted melting of the glaciers in the Himalayas in 30 to 40 years which will cause catastrophic flooding in India and China.
"If we agree we will have a blueprint, " said the CDU MP Mr Brinkhaus, "and next, for example, Poland or other countries will demand the same and this will be a first step in the melting down on the whole union".
In fact, recent research by Blancon et al published in Nature in 2009, examining the paleoclimate record, shows sea-level rises of 3 metres in 50 years due to the rapid melting of ice sheets 123, 000 years ago in the Eemian, when the energy imbalance in the climate system was less than that to which we are now subjecting the planet.
Silicon Valley may be in fact the new melting pot socially, ethnically, and intellectually capable of representing the change we wish to see in the world.
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