This causes local warming, therefore more melting, which causes more warming, and so on.

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Such increased summer melting has an immediate local temperature effect, and it also will affect sea level.

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In 1975, at age 25, he left for Indonesia, where he started a scrap-melting steel plant with a local partner.

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Local councillor Wyn Evans told the BBC melting snow and torrential rain had caused "severe flooding and destruction" in the area.

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Apart from Mr. Billard's melting bonus, a bank teller in British Columbia made national news after she told a local radio station of seeing bills that had melted a on car dashboard on a hot summer day.

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