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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"Once a runaway instability starts, it cannot be stopped until a new stable position is found [for the ice sheet]," writes geophysicist Erik r. Ivins in an editorial accompanying the Science paper.

一旦冰原的稳定性开始失控，就无法刹车了，除非它找到一个新的稳定支撑点。

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This paper introduces a system of China's first large looking ice station for automatic measuring of various parameters concerned with vibration of iced conductors.

本文介绍了我国第一座大型观冰测试站内试验输电线路复冰振动各种参数测试的一套自动检测系统。

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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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