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To melt, thaw and resolve ourselves.

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The American election delayed release of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report, but its principal authors have spoken to the US Congress and its contents have been discussed in North American and world media. As the Washington Post reports (31/10/04):

The most comprehensive international assessment of Arctic climate change has concluded that Earth's upper latitudes are experiencing unprecedented increases in temperature, glacial melting and weather pattern changes, with most of those changes attributable to the human generation of greenhouse gases from automobiles, power plants and other sources. Temperatures in the Arctic have been rising much faster than in low or mid latitudes.

Canada's national Globe & Mail says, The 1400-page report, dubbed "the brick" by the more than 250 scientists working on the project, is to be released November 9 in Reykjavik at a ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council. The council countries are Canada, Iceland,...

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