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Nobody is currently predicting a full scale polar ice cap melting, not even in worst case scenarios.
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In the spring and summer of recent years, the polar ice cap has receded more quickly and more dramatically.
NPR: Oceanographer Sees Real Effects of Climate Change
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Are you terrified by the melting polar ice cap, rising sea levels, extreme weather, and other growing threats from global warming?
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In 1958, the USS Nautilus crossed under the north polar ice cap.
CNN: Saturday,
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The 13-day trek across the frozen polar ice cap was in aid of the charity Walking With The Wounded which supports injured ex-servicemen and women.
BBC: Prince Harry's polar expedition flies Dover school flag
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Many scientists predict that the entire north polar ice cap may be completely gone during summer months in the first term of the next president.
NPR: Transcript: Al Gore's Speech
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Still, a late entry by the former vice president could add enough heat to the contest to melt a few more inches of polar ice cap.
NPR: Former Vice President Al Gore (TN)
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Many scientists predict -- shockingly -- that the entire North Polar ice cap may be completely gone during summer months during the first term of the next president.
CNN: Transcript: Al Gore's speech at Invesco Field
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Using ever fancier technologies, the oil business is drilling in deeper waters, more difficult terrain and even in the Arctic (which, as global warming melts the polar ice cap, will perversely become the next great prize in oil).
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Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) is a climatologist who realizes, as a slice of the polar ice cap slides into the sea, that the end of the world (or, at any rate, of that half of the world that drives S.U.V.s) is nigh.
NEWYORKER: The Day After Tomorrow
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But the volume of the Martian north polar cap is less than half that of the Greenland ice cap, and about four percent of the Antarctic ice sheet.
BBC: By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse
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The shape of the polar cap indicates that it is composed primarily of water ice, with a volume of 1.2 million cubic kilometres.
BBC: By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse