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Arctic ice melt affecting weather, wildlife, study findsFeb
15
Inuit group wants in on five-nation Arctic meetingFeb
14
The chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Jimmy Stotts, said last week he wants Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon to invite Inuit representatives to a meeting of five Arctic coastal states next month in Chelsea, Que., a small town just outside Ottawa. more » Arctic ice melt could cost $28tln by 2050: reportFeb
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Canada Will Use Robot Subs to Map Arctic Sea Floor, Boost Territorial ClaimsFeb
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Palin: A “Bunch of snake oil science” on global warmingFeb
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Environmental analysis news: Arctic ice melt ‘could cost billions’Feb
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Study Says Arctic Ice Melt to Cost Global Economy $2.4 TrillionFeb
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Scant Arctic ice could mean summer “double whammy”Feb
5
Polar-bear summit accomplished little, scientist contendsFeb
4
WINNIPEG — The much-touted polar bear summit last year in Winnipeg cost taxpayers at least $115,000 and one prominent scientist says it made no real progress toward saving the iconic animal, vancouversun.com says. more » |
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WINNIPEG—Rapidly melting Arctic sea ice is changing the world’s weather, releasing contaminants into the food chain and threatening the survival of whales and polar bears, a massive international study on climate change has found, says thestar.com. 
Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $US2.4 trillion ($2.8 billion) to $US24 trillion by 2050 in damage from rising sea levels, floods and heat waves, according to a report released on Friday, says smh.com.au. 
Two robot submarines will plunge into the Arctic next month in an effort to help Canada stake a claim to a large swath of potentially mineral-rich seafloor in the polar region, nytimes.com says. 
According to blog.seattlepi.com, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who set up a task force to deal with climate change when she was governor, on Monday lampooned studies supporting global warming as a “bunch of snake oil science.” 
According to envirotech-online.com, rising sea levels and warmer temperatures caused by Arctic ice melting could cost governments around the world billions of dollars, scientists have claimed. 
On one hand, it is a very, very round number — obviously just a rough and imperfect estimate of the economic impacts of an enormously complex and often unpredictable jumble of warming Earth climate systems, says abcnews.go.com.