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September 14th, 2006, 14:29
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Do you want ice with that?
According to the BBC, there has been a dramatic shrinkage in Arctic sea ice. Perennial ice, which usually does not melt year in year out, has been declining at an average of 7% per DECADE since records began about 30 years ago. Last year (in just ONE YEAR) the ice that melted away constituted 14% of it's mass.
As the BBC states, the implications from this are that 'Ice reflects the Sun's energy back into space; open water absorbs it. So a planet with less ice warms faster, potentially turning the projected impacts of global warming into reality sooner than anticipated'.
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