First we were accused of causing melting polar ice caps, rising oceans and sweaty polar bears.

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Who cares about deforestation and melting polar ice caps, when it means God is just around the corner?

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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.

BBC: Last Updated: Thursday May 08 2008 11:40 GMT

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.

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Polar ice caps are melting.

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He is impressed by everything there that is overarching, awe-inspiring, intimidating, overpowering, crushingly colossal, or incomprehensibly strange, and his crabby, self-righteous misanthropy, which comes through in every frame, rises to apocalyptic dimensions: learning of the perils to polar ice caps posed by global warming, he foresees with barely repressed glee the extinction of humanity through climate change.

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When we think about climate change, we are no longer thinking about polar bears stranded on melting ice caps.

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The fate of polar bears weighs on our collective conscience more than pandas because of melting ice caps.

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The reason for the excitement is that, although the existence of ice on Mars has been known since 1666, when the planet's polar caps were first seen, the low temperatures and air pressure there mean that water, even if heavily salted, is likely either to freeze or to evaporate.

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