The fate of polar bears weighs on our collective conscience more than pandas because of melting ice caps.
When we think about climate change, we are no longer thinking about polar bears stranded on melting ice caps.
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Warmer temperatures are already melting ice caps, leading to rising sea levels.
Dr Marsden reckons the technique might even improve understanding of how water from melting ice caps will affect ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream.
But, then you turn on the news and hear reports of the the horrific attacks on innocent people in Mumbai, our crashing economy, melting ice caps, and all of that imagined baby bliss fades away.
Around midday Friday, the sturdy and ice-strengthened science research vessel, the "Grigory Mikheev, " will depart Kangerlussuaq in Greenland bound for Disko Bay, a location on the west coast that provides some of the starkest examples of the island's melting ice caps.
First we were accused of causing melting polar ice caps, rising oceans and sweaty polar bears.
Who cares about deforestation and melting polar ice caps, when it means God is just around the corner?
Apparently, the decisive argument will be that only transnational bureaucrats will be able to contend with the implications of the melting Arctic ice caps induced by global warming.
Faced with melting polar ice caps and worsening droughts, climate experts at a massive U.N. conference in Bali, Indonesia, urged quick action toward a new international pact that seeks to stem an increasingly destructive rise in world temperatures.
The destruction of the rainforest I believe is a huge problem, as is the polar ice caps melting but it's good to see the problem being addressed.
Until recently, it was thought that any melting going on in the ice caps was fairly gentle.
The earth is warming up faster than we thought, and the ice caps are melting faster than we thought.
Although environmentalists are concerned by this melting trend, shipping and energy companies are salivating at the prospect of smaller ice caps, which makes Arctic drilling and commerce easier.
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