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Article: Summer heat melts expanses of Arctic ice
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 10, 2009
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TUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories - The Arctic Ocean has given
up tens of thousands more square miles of ice in a relentless summer
of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a
possible record low polar ice cap.
From the barren Arctic shore of this village in Canada's far
northwest, 1,500 miles north of Seattle, veteran observer Eddie
Gruben has seen the summer ice retreating more each decade as the
world has warmed. By this weekend the ice edge lay some 80 miles at
sea.
"Forty years ago, it was 40 miles out," said Gruben, 89,
patriarch of a local contracting business.
Global average temperatures rose 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past
century, but Arctic temperatures rose ...