The most powerful of feedbacks in the Arctic is sea ice and snow cover, said Miller, the lead author on a paper about past "Arctic amplification" in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.

在北极，反馈最强的莫过于海冰和积雪，米勒说，他是第四纪科学评论杂志中关于过去“北极的放大效应”一文的主要作者。

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We'll wrap him in tissue paper, put him in a little box, then have a nice burial ceremony in the back yard. After that, we'll go out for an ice cream soda, and then get you a new pet.

妈妈亲了一下他的头，说：“没关系。我们用纸巾把它包起来，放到小盒子里，再到后院举行一个小葬礼。然后我们就去吃冰激凌，再买给你一个新宠物。”

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On any summer day thousands of visitors stroll through Rushmore, many licking ice-cream cones wrapped in paper American flags.

对夏季的任何一天，都有数以千计的游览者慢步穿过拉什莫尔山，许多舐着用美国国旗纸张包装的圆筒雪榚。

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To test this idea, Dr Hebets turned to her make-up bag and brought out two shades of nail varnish (NailSlicks, midnight metal and bronze ice, as her paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences quite properly describes in its materials and methods section, in case any other researcher wishes to replicate the experiment).

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In addition to findings of lower ice volumes in Autumn and Winter, a new paper from researchers at the University of Washington has confirmed that Arctic ice melts during the summer is also accelerating.

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Think of all the energy expended in pumping that water, treating it, spraying it on crops, heating it for your shower, making it into ice, Coca-Cola, paper, and on and on.

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