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Arctic Ice Field Could Melt By 2080
Berlin (AFP) Dec 05, 2006 The Arctic Ocean's ice field could melt entirely by 2080 due to global warming, a group of European scientists meeting in the northern Germany city of Bremen announced on Tuesday. "If the situation evolves as physics predicts, the Arctic Ocean's summertime ice fields will completely disappear by 2080," said Eberhard Fahrbach of the Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI), a member of the European Arctic research body DAMOCLES. At present, the polar ice cap's size varies according to the season, with parts melting and refreezing throughout the year. According to Fahrbach's prediction, there would be no permanently frozen areas in a matter of decades. "That has consequences going much further than the Arctic," he added. Climatic change threatens the polar bears of the region, for example, but also the entire food chain. "It also has an effect on the fish which ultimately end up on our tables," the scientist added. The DAMOCLES programme (Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies) is a European project aimed at monitoring and forecasting climate changes in the Arctic.
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Weakening of Gulf Stream Linked To Europe's "Little Ice Age"
Paris (AFP) Nov 29, 2006Four hundred and seventy years ago, England's King Henry VIII travelled on the surface of the River Thames -- by horse. Legend has it that the monarch was pulled all the way from central London to Greenwich on a sleigh on the icy surface of the river, which had frozen from bank to bank that winter because of bitter cold. |
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