Most of the Arctic is covered in snow and ice, which are highly reflective; if snow and ice melt, the exposed soil, which absorbs heat, serves to accelerate warming.
北极大部分地区被冰雪覆盖，具有很强的反射性；如果冰雪融化，裸露的土壤吸收热量，有助于加速变暖。
Never mind that even drastic world-wide reductions in carbon emissions that wouldn't have the slightest affection ice melt over the next decade or so.
不要介意，即使在今后十年这样一段时间里，全球最严厉的碳减排也不能在最轻微的程度上影响冰融。
As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
就像太阳可以使冰雪融化，善良可以是误解、猜忌和敌意融化！
Who is at the forefront of such research and proposals, especially in the field of Arctic ice melt?
在关于这些的研究和提议上，特别是在北极海冰融化领域上，谁走在前沿？
Last year was a record year for ice melt all over the Arctic and the ice band surrounding the North Pole is even thinner now.
去年是北极地区冰层融化创记录的一年，如今北极周围的冰带更薄了。
There may be several reasons for the ice melt, says Jinlun Zhang, an oceanographer at the University of Washington in Seattle.
冰雪融化有许多原因，西雅图华盛顿大学的海洋学家张金伦说，有许多原因导致了冰层融化。
That is because snow and ice melt, or break off from glaciers. They flow into the sea. The increased water makes the sea levels rise.
这是因为冰雪从冰川上消融并流入大海，这些增加的水使得海平面上升。
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
持续的善良能成就很多！就像太阳让冰雪融化，善良可以让误解、不信任和敌意消失！
A record ice melt up there is opening new shipping lanes that would greatly cut the amount of time it takes to get goods around the world.
一处曾有记录的冰川融化使得一条新的航道展现出来，这将大大缩短货物运送到世界各地的时间。
Never mind that even drastic world-wide reductions incarbon emissions over the next decade or so wouldn't have the slightest affecton ice melt.
不要介意于即使在今后十年这样一段时间里全球最严厉的碳减排也不能在最轻微的程度上影响冰融。
Meanwhile, a dozen small ice shelves, which sit on relatively warmer water, produced half the total water from ice melt during the same period.
同时，还有十几个小冰架坐落在相对温暖的水域，同期的融化量占整个融雪量的一半。
Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research even predicted in a recent study that Arctic sea-ice melt might pause or reverse over the next decade, depending on northern-wind patterns.
美国大气研究中心的科学家根据北风试验，预测未来十年北冰洋海冰融化现象有可能停止甚至逆转。
A thinner isotherm allows faster turnover of warmer waters from below, which speeds ice-melt. The process is self-perpetuating: as ice melts, the ocean absorbs more heat and melts more ice, and so on.
较薄的等温线使下面温暖的海水快速流转，从而加快冰融化。
As the climate warms (up) the ice caps will melt.
随着气候变暖，冰盖将融化。
If this warming up took place, the ice caps in the poles would begin to melt, thus raising sea level several metres and severely flooding coastal cities.
如果这种变暖发生，两极的冰帽将开始融化，从而使海平面上升数米，并严重淹没沿海城市。
Evidence that an ice-free corridor between two ice sheets developed when the continental ice first began to melt came primarily from radiocarbon dating.
当大陆上的冰开始融化时，两块冰原之间形成了一条无冰走廊，这一证据主要来自放射性碳测年法。
The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that open water during the summer, the less ice forms in the winter, the more melt there is the following summer.
冰减少的越多，形成的无冰水面就会越多，这些无冰水面在夏天时的温度会持续升高，在冬天结的冰就会减少，来年夏天也会有更多的冰融化。
But until then I would rather climb away, not wait for the last piece of ice to melt, but climb into the airless cold of outer space where I too can be a witness to what happens next.
不过，在那之前，我宁愿攀升，不等最后一片冰融化，就爬上空气稀薄、寒冷的外太空。在那里，我也能成为目击随后发生事情的见证人。
Either it exposes land, which then warms up; or it forms ponds (or lakes or streams) of meltwater on the surface of the ice, which absorb energy and melt more ice.
融冰过程要么导致陆地暴露并且温度升高，要么在冰层表面形成池塘(或湖泊，或溪流)，并吸收能量，融化更多的冰。
This will reveal more of the complex nature of the ice thickness, basal melt-rates and insight into the breakup at the front section of Petermann.
这项工作将更多地揭示冰层厚度、基底融化速度的复杂特性，帮助科学家进一步了解彼得曼冰川前段解体的状况。
Meanwhile, an army of humble if accidental Armenian ambassadors are helping to melt the ice.
同时，也算出于巧合：社会低层的亚美尼亚人群体正在充当“关系特使”，帮助两国“融化坚冰”。
With the new info in hand, scientists should be able to build better models of smaller sea-ice features like melt ponds and ridges.
将新的信息掌握在手中，科学家们应该能够建立较小海冰特性的更好模式，例如融化的池子和山脊。
But higher ocean temperatures cause icebergs and ice shelves to melt, which raises sea level.
但较高的海洋温度会造成冰山和冰架融化，这引起了海平面上升。
In 2008 and 2009, scientists feared the record-thin Arctic ice cover might melt away.
在2008年和2009年，科学家们担心那个记录——薄北极冰盖可能全部融化。
If the polar ice caps melt any further, Russia would be able to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, where it's believed to have huge fossil-fuel reserves.
如果北极冰盖进一步融化，俄罗斯将有可能在北冰洋上进行石油和天然气的钻探，而众所周知那里有着丰富的能源储量。
If the polar ice caps melt any further, Russia would be able to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, where it's believed to have huge fossil-fuel reserves.
如果北极冰盖进一步融化，俄罗斯将有可能在北冰洋上进行石油和天然气的钻探，而众所周知那里有着丰富的能源储量。
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