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Satellite data indicate large warm anomalies across much of the Arctic over the past decade, with record low ice years occurring in 2002 and again in 2003. In addition, analyses of decades of North Atlantic Ocean data now show recent changes in circulation that are consistent with global warming...
...This isn't likely to change anytime soon. Congress has been occupied with bills that are high priorities on the minds of the G.O.P. business constituency-a bankruptcy bill that makes it tougher, in many cases, to be absolved of debts, an energy bill that opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling-but that are not likely to touch the hearts of most Americans. One White House insider says, "People are feeling 'My gas prices are high and you're up there talking about Terry Schiavo and filibusters and blocking nominees and what does that have to do with...
...Harsh Arctic winds and ice-clogged waters can make any journey through the Northwest Passage an arduous one. But it is a frosty disagreement between the U.S. and Canada that has cast the greatest chill over the voyage of the Polar Sea, a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker. The U.S. considers the strait an international route. The Coast Guard says the vessel is simply taking the quickest route home. The Canadians claim that the strait is an internal waterway, and they see the U.S. insistence on entering without permission as an insult to the country's sovereignty. "The Americans are abusing...
...cold war was at its height, flying saucers were flitting over suburban barbecues, and Americans were feeling, perhaps justifiably, a little paranoid. Among the first of these science-fiction creature features was The Thing, a real scarer in which a huge and extremely unpleasant plant lands in the Arctic, the point man, so to speak, of an invasion by other vainglorious veggies. "You mean we're dealing with a walking carrot?" asks an indignant reporter...
...next two months to give speeches and headline fund raisers for other Democrats. And he is constantly e-mailing his list of more than 3 million supporters to promote causes he championed as a candidate, like expanding health insurance to all children and preventing oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Kerry plans to write a book on his views on national security...