Word: icecaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence comes from U.S. and Danish scientists working above the Arctic Circle at a remote encampment 120 miles east of Thule. For several years, they drilled through the 4,500-ft.-thick Greenland icecap, gathering cores, or cylindrical samples, that provide a remarkably accurate record of Greenland's weather. The cores consist of layers of ice, each representing a year's precipitation. They have remained virtually unchanged for centuries. By analyzing these layers, scientists have been able to reconstruct a climatic history that reaches back for 100,000 years...
...revived its once-faltering reputation, and many future plans revolve around seeding everything from tornadoes to typhoons. The Soviets are testing sound as a possible way to disperse fog, have even suggested damming the Bering Strait to make the Arctic warmer. Several countries have suggested melting part of the icecap by coating it with heat-absorbing carbon. U.S. scientists are considering the possibility of generating dust clouds in space to form sunshades, or creating broad bands of ice-crystal cirrus clouds that would allow the ground beneath to cool...
...container analogous to a Gemini capsule, any major change in the weather at one place is bound to affect the whole worldwide weather system. To destroy a typhoon threatening Kyushu might deprive a drought-ridden corner of India of needed rain or even parch Eastern Europe. To melt the icecap would almost certainly inundate much of the U.S. seaboard. Thus the masters of controlled weather would have to make sticky international and intranational decisions about which areas would get the good effects and which...
...scalped himself and suffered cerebral concussion and a fractured spine. Because his legs were paralyzed, McMullen was placed in traction, and word was flashed to Washington that an immediate operation was necessary to save his life. There are no surgeons among the reduced 215-man winter staff on the icecap, and the Navy ordered a U.S. surgical team to risk the dangerous flight...
Nibbling Ocean. This is what happened about a million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene, and the earth might have remained forever in perpetual deep freeze if not for a hid den weakness of the Antarctic icecap. As the ice spread out over the southern ocean, colder ice came in contact once more with the rock below it, freezing the slippery water layer between ice and rock (see diagram). This was the turning point. Held fast to the rock, the ice stopped moving. The ice shelf was nibbled away by the ocean, and the earth could capture more...