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In the first few years with no heat, pipes burst all over town, the freeze-thaw cycle moves indoors, and things start to seriously deteriorate.
Alan Weisman speaks about his groundbreaking book, The World Without Us 2010
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Later, we learned from biologists that this is due to unusual freeze-thaw cycles caused by global warming.
Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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The first letter argues that factors such as grassland degradation or changes in the freeze-thaw patterns could be driving the change in springtime.
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Iceberg Tsunamis, Economics of Geoengineering, Arctic Ecosystems David Kroodsma 2011
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Neutered males are more able to break through ice with their hooves or antlers, and seem more willing than other males to move aside and share food with calves that can die of starvation in bad freeze-thaw winters like 2000-01.
Castrated Reindeer Adapt Better To Climate Change Joanna Zelman 2011
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Later, we learned from biologists that this is due to unusual freeze-thaw cycles caused by global warming.
Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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The first letter argues that factors such as grassland degradation or changes in the freeze-thaw patterns could be driving the change in springtime.
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Iceberg Tsunamis, Economics of Geoengineering, Arctic Ecosystems David Kroodsma 2011
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And we have had a couple of freeze-thaw cycles so the whole lot is fused together and going no place fast.
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Still, these products do contribute to freeze-thaw cycles by creating water from frozen precipitation.
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Those surfaces usually are damaged by freeze-thaw cycles and not directly by chemical reactions between them and snow melts/deicers.
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If climate change results in more frequent freeze-thaw events leading to a more shallow and icy snowpack (section 6.4.4), this is likely to expose small mammals to predators, disrupt population increases, and thereby prevent cyclic peak abundances of lemmings and voles.
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