Some climate change naysayers point to Antarctic ice on the rise, as if that makes up for melting ice in the Arctic Circle.
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The amount of the Arctic covered by sea ice fell in late August to the lowest point since satellite observations began in 1979, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.
During the period 1645 to 1715, the low point of the Little Ice Age, the number of sunspots declined to zero for the entire time.
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"While the ice is disappearing faster than the computer models indicate, both observations and the models point in the same direction: the Arctic is losing ice at an increasingly rapid pace and the impact of greenhouse gases is growing, " said co-author Marika Holland of NCAR.
Connerton said ice had built up on the plane to the point that he could no longer get it to climb.
Environmentalists point to Inuit communities threatened by melting ice in Greenland, and those living around the fast-shrinking Lake Chad in Africa, as among many already feeling the effects.
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At the high point of the weather someone was even eating an ice cream.
We're not sure why he has a problem with widescreen aspect ratio and increased resolution helping you to see a bit more of the ice than you otherwise could (isn't that the point?), not to mention that the announcer was probably joking.
At that point Earl may have more use for Sharon Stone's ice pick than for her bed.
Very few scientists think Greenland would be stable in an Arctic with little or no summer sea-ice, and opinion is split as to whether it is past its tipping point already.
Zajac gathered the puck at the right point, skated into the zone, and sent a cross-ice pass to Elias, who came down the middle for a redirection through Clemmensen's pads at 1:24.
"They started tilting the ice, and we were scrambling a little bit, " said Rangers forward Derek Stepan, whose point-blank shot early in the third period nicked off the blocker of Ottawa goaltender Robin Lehner.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Arctic sea-ice covered 4.5 million sq km (1.7 million sq miles) at its lowest point on 12 September last year.
But eventually, each atom encounters a plate at a temperature lower than its boiling point, at which point it sticks to the plate, just as water freezes when poured on to dry-ice.
At some point in Game 6, they couldn't locate the culprit when an extra man on the ice penalty was called.
The action scenes play well, the high point being a fencing duel between Bond and his nemesis, although a scene with Bond surfing an ice-strewn tsunami is a regrettable bust.
Confessing to Koenig's killing, Keyes used a Google map to point to a spot on a lake where he'd disposed of her dismembered body and gone ice fishing at the same time.
Some scientists also see a tipping-point another feared term in the climatology lexicon in the accelerating diminution of the sea ice.
The high point of the journey came on the second afternoon of the trip, as the ferry approached the incredible ice walls of the Patagonian glaciers, entering a turquoise-tinted bay thick with floating icebergs.
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