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08-24-2009, 04:56 AM
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Word Santa Claus
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GrayMouser is completely correct here. "Ice-free summer" in the "Arctic" has a very definite meaning of ice-free summers on the Arctic Ocean. No one is suggesting that Greenland will melt away - they are suggesting that the massive sea-ice accumulations that made the Northwest Passage entirely impassable without wintering in the Arctic when the first explorers tried a bit over two hundred years ago will be gone (although they will still re-form every winter; just thinner and thinner and continually melting each summer).
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