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More Arctic ice melts

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Sep 16, 2008
by: Anonymous

We've all heard about global warming, but it's time to take it seriously.  Ice is melting and isn't coming back. Animals are dying left and right in the artic.  It's not cold enough anymore and more people need to try to do something or help in any way they can, even if it's just recycling a bottle every now and then.  

 

Arctic sea ice, which floats on the ocean, expands in winter and retreats in summer. In recent years it hasn't been as thick in winter. Sea ice is crucial to worldwide weather patterns, both serving as a kind of refrigerator and reflecting the sun's heat. Given recent trends, triggered by man-made global warming, scientists warn that within five to 10 years the Arctic could be free of sea ice in the summer. Even though the sea ice didn't retreat this year as much as last summer, "there was no real sign of recovery," said Walt Meier of the snow and ice data center. This year was cooler and other weather conditions weren't as bad, he said.

Arctic sea ice melts fast, but misses record - Salt Lake Tribune

 

 

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Global Warming

Submitted by katies on Tue, 2008-09-16 16:21.

lol thank you for this informative paragraph on global warming. my life will be forever changed

More Arctic Ice Melts!!!!

Submitted by pcardenas on Sat, 2008-10-25 16:12.

Dear Nicole

I liked your essay, "More Arctic Ice Melts," because it is true that there are a lot of ice in the arctic continent melts because of global warming. I think you are right because some poeple do not care about that. even George Bush doesn't care about global warming.

One sentence you wrote that stand out for me is: "It's not cold enough anymore and more people need to try to do something or help in any way they can, even if it's just recycling a bottle every now and then." I hink this is good because every year the ice caps are getting thinner. recycling is a good start of helping our planet.

Another sentence that I liked was: "Arctic sea ice, which floats on the ocean, expands in winter and retreats in summer. In recent years it hasn't been as thick in winter." Maybe this is the reason why last year winter and fall is not that cold. sometimes I think that Mother Nature is sleepng, and has amnesia. Thats a simple joke that I made last year. 

Your story reminds me of something that happened to me. One time when I was in my own country, the weather man is reporting about the weather, he told us that it won't rain. But in the afternoon where me and my family were walking down the park, it just started raining. By the time we rode the bus, the rain poured hard and we didn't bring any unbrellas or something that would cover our heads and body.

Thanks for your writing. i look forward to seeing what you write next, because i think that you write about important things, just like this essay. I hope to see more from you.

More artic ice melts

Submitted by ndaza on Thu, 2008-10-30 10:06.

Dear Nicole

I like your essay most of all because I'm very intersteaded in animals and it's sad that there dieing becuase of us we cause global wariming but we are not doing any thing to help .Most of us still doing it like if nothing is going wroung but trueth is that we are going to die to if we keep going the way we are but even though we know the problem nothing is stoping us .  Animals are very important to us even though we dont know it we have to care for them basically what we are doing to the polar bears is abusing them it's like taking there homes away .Which is not cool any anmial has the right to live just a like a human .Many people think all well there giong to be more but trueth is not giong to happen they die and basically never going to come back.  

This is a very sad idea, but

Submitted by 11mceachernch on Mon, 2009-06-01 13:42.

This is a very sad idea, but it is the truth. I was doing a project on the topic of the arctic ice melting, and i found out a lot of the same information that you have written about here. Our actions are effecting lives, animal lives and it is sad because they had nothing to do with the ozone layer or global warming. So arctic animals are dying because their natural habitat is slowly disappearing. Pretty soon, there will be no ice and the entire population of animals which inhabit the arctic ice will become extinct because of drowning, starvation, exhaustion, etc.