Ice cap kaput.See "Living with Climate Change in the Arctic Arctic area of constant cold. [Geography: WB, A:600] See : Coldness (language, music) Arctic - A real-time functional language, used for music synthesis. ["Arctic: A Functional Language for Real-Time Control", R.B. ," September/October 2005, p. 18 The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions for ice loss, a U.S. ice expert said in April. Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado Colorado, state, United States Colorado (kŏlərăd`ə, –răd`ō, –rä`dō), state, W central United States, one of the Rocky Mt. states. , predicted the Arctic Ocean Arctic Ocean, the smallest ocean, c.5,400,000 sq mi (13,986,000 sq km), located entirely within the Arctic Circle and occupying the region around the North Pole. could be free or nearly free of summer ice by 2020, three decades sooner than the Intergovernmental in·ter·gov·ern·men·tal adj. Being or occurring between two or more governments or divisions of a government. in Panel on Climate Change's gloomiest forecast of 2050. Visit www.worldwatch.org/ww/ to access these and other archived editions of World Watch. |
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