First we were accused of causing melting polar ice caps, rising oceans and sweaty polar bears.
Until recently, it was thought that any melting going on in the ice caps was fairly gentle.
The fate of polar bears weighs on our collective conscience more than pandas because of melting ice caps.
Who cares about deforestation and melting polar ice caps, when it means God is just around the corner?
In 60 years the ice caps could melt and one fifth of the world's land will go under water.
We worry how long the ice caps have left because of climate change.
When we think about climate change, we are no longer thinking about polar bears stranded on melting ice caps.
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The earth is warming up faster than we thought, and the ice caps are melting faster than we thought.
Those are determined by temperature (warmer water takes up more room) and the size of the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps.
Warmer temperatures are already melting ice caps, leading to rising sea levels.
Dr Marsden reckons the technique might even improve understanding of how water from melting ice caps will affect ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream.
The destruction of the rainforest I believe is a huge problem, as is the polar ice caps melting but it's good to see the problem being addressed.
Apparently, the decisive argument will be that only transnational bureaucrats will be able to contend with the implications of the melting Arctic ice caps induced by global warming.
Although environmentalists are concerned by this melting trend, shipping and energy companies are salivating at the prospect of smaller ice caps, which makes Arctic drilling and commerce easier.
Increased pollution, shrinking ice caps, deforestation and rising sea levels.
According to John Wahr at the University of Colorado-Boulder, glaciers and ice caps in places other than Greenland and Antarctica lost about 30% less ice than had previously been estimated.
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Being so far north, much of region - some 146, 000 square km - is covered by glaciers and ice caps (a type of ice field where glaciers flow off in many directions).
But, then you turn on the news and hear reports of the the horrific attacks on innocent people in Mumbai, our crashing economy, melting ice caps, and all of that imagined baby bliss fades away.
Faced with melting polar ice caps and worsening droughts, climate experts at a massive U.N. conference in Bali, Indonesia, urged quick action toward a new international pact that seeks to stem an increasingly destructive rise in world temperatures.
Around midday Friday, the sturdy and ice-strengthened science research vessel, the "Grigory Mikheev, " will depart Kangerlussuaq in Greenland bound for Disko Bay, a location on the west coast that provides some of the starkest examples of the island's melting ice caps.
He is impressed by everything there that is overarching, awe-inspiring, intimidating, overpowering, crushingly colossal, or incomprehensibly strange, and his crabby, self-righteous misanthropy, which comes through in every frame, rises to apocalyptic dimensions: learning of the perils to polar ice caps posed by global warming, he foresees with barely repressed glee the extinction of humanity through climate change.
Sea levels were 150 feet lower then, because the cold had locked up so much moisture in northern ice-caps, so not only were most Indonesian islands linked by land, but the Persian Gulf was dry and, crucially, the southern end of the Red Sea was a narrow strait.
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The reason for the excitement is that, although the existence of ice on Mars has been known since 1666, when the planet's polar caps were first seen, the low temperatures and air pressure there mean that water, even if heavily salted, is likely either to freeze or to evaporate.
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