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Kerry to visit Arctic amid concern over ice melt (Where does he find the time?)
Yahoo News ^ | 4/18/15 | AFP

Posted on 04/18/2015 4:31:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Washington (AFP) - Secretary of State John Kerry will visit the Arctic Circle next week for key ministerial talks on climate change amid global concerns about rising seas and accelerating ice melt.

Global warming is happening twice as fast in the Arctic than elsewhere on the planet and many fear not only devastating impacts of warming but also from an influx of people and industry on the pristine environment, wildlife and Inuit culture.

Kerry will attend a meeting of the Arctic Council in the northwestern Canadian town of Iqaluit, on Baffin Island.

The United States on April 24 formally takes over the two-year rotating membership of the intergovernmental forum -- comprising countries with territory within the Arctic -- Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.

The body aims to promote cooperation on environmental protection, as well as to help govern oil and mineral exploitation, shipping, tourism and fishing.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arctic; climatechange; icemelt; kerry
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To: left that other site

Fair enough and honestly stated.


61 posted on 04/18/2015 6:35:28 PM PDT by Fungi (So you think you know anything about evolution? Think again.)
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To: DoughtyOne


HT timblair.net
62 posted on 04/18/2015 6:40:10 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Arctic ice disappeared in 2000. algore said so.


63 posted on 04/18/2015 6:52:44 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: NormsRevenge

The meeting coincided with a planned vacation that Lurch was going to take up in the Arctic to visit his distant relative: the Abominable Snowman.


64 posted on 04/18/2015 6:54:43 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: NormsRevenge

Oh no, oh no, with all that hot air up there when Kerry shows up will the ice stand a chance?


65 posted on 04/18/2015 6:56:04 PM PDT by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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To: anoldafvet
Can anyone point to one instance of a “ rising sea”?

Sure..

Twice a day..

It's called 'the tide'..

;-)

66 posted on 04/18/2015 8:27:36 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Global warming is happening twice as fast in the Arctic than elsewhere on the planet and...

Does that mean it stopped its warming trend 30 years ago instead of 15 years like the rest of the globe???

67 posted on 04/19/2015 4:58:55 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: BigEdLB

LOL


68 posted on 04/19/2015 9:59:49 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
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