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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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Fair enough and honestly stated.
Arctic ice disappeared in 2000. algore said so.
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.
Oh no, oh no, with all that hot air up there when Kerry shows up will the ice stand a chance?
Sure..
Twice a day..
It's called 'the tide'..
;-)
Does that mean it stopped its warming trend 30 years ago instead of 15 years like the rest of the globe???
LOL
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