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I give it a month and it will be back to icesheets breaking off, clips of dead polar bears and how we are all doomed.
Swine Flu FIDO The Dog 2009
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We would like to preserve some of our natural heritage and not witness the break-up of the world's icesheets in our lifetimes.
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Rintoul said his team are studying if faster melting of icesheets or sea ice is the source of the fresher water but he said it was too early to tell if global warming was to blame.
Archive 2008-04-01 Dana 2008
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Now we would expect some melting of the shelf due to the broken icesheets.
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Or that the cooling of Antarctica over the last 50 years and the growth of the icesheets practically everywhere except the tiny Antartic Peninsula represent a large sink sucking heat out of the atmosphere?
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The ocean was a white shambles, blown ragged by a freezing wind that came slicing off the icesheets which lay to the south.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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The ocean was a white shambles, blown ragged by a freezing wind that came slicing off the icesheets which lay to the south.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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They point to accelerating melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic icesheets over the past two decades.
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Current estimates of the Greenland icesheets net mass loss vary between 130 and 250
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Scientists have long known that the grinding of rock by massive icesheets during the last ice age created the rich soils of Europe and North America.
COSMOS magazine - The science of everything Wilson 2010
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