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Ability in the global tongue is arguably the readiest means for Inuit-speakers to enter the most effective possible conversation—necessarily one of global scope—affecting their local, high-latitude fates.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Ability in the global tongue is arguably the readiest means for Inuit-speakers to enter the most effective possible conversation—necessarily one of global scope—affecting their local, high-latitude fates.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Solar electricity in a cold, high-latitude country displaces none of the coal and gas plants currently producing electricity on winter evenings.
Greens must not prioritise renewables over climate change | George Monbiot and Chris Goodall 2011
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Moreover, the recent reduction in the response of trees to air-temperature changes would mean that estimates of future atmospheric CO2 concentrations, based on carbon-cycle models that are uniformly sensitive to high-latitude warming, could be too low.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Useful Reset: What Peer Review Is and Is Not 2009
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The "TEDESCO AND MONAGHAN" paper is called An updated Antarctic melt record through 2009 and its linkages to high-latitude and tropical climate variability.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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A high-latitude region covered in ice, though strictly not an ice cap (since they exceed the maximum area specified in the definition above), are called polar ice caps; the usage of this designation is widespread in the mass media and arguably recognized by experts, though it may be claimed to be incorrect.
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Paul Alaback "Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation," published by Island Press, documents that in 2007 the 250 million acres of temperate and high-latitude forests stored 196 gigatons of carbon -- the equivalent of six times the amount of carbon dioxide humans emit each year by burning fossil fuels.
Cool rainforests store more carbon, book finds Juliet Eilperin 2010
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Last night, I watched the webcast of the Nova episode on new high-latitude dinosaur finds along the North Slope of Alaska, and, mostly, it did a good job with the subject.
Entry #1,909 greygirlbeast 2008
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The listening attempts will continue until after the sun is above the horizon for the full 24.7 hours of the Martian day at the lander's high-latitude site.
Odyssey to Start Listening for Phoenix Lander | Universe Today 2010
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Because of this pattern, known as the Brewer-Dobson circulation, an eruption in the tropics can rapidly spread volcanic material worldwide, whereas emissions from a high-latitude volcano would have a more narrow influence on the climate in the northern hemisphere.
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