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Yet am I sorry that I cannot tell more of those early drifts, when there was crushage of peoples, or descending ice-sheets, or migrations of meat.
Chapter 21 2010
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I guess the glaciers and ice-sheets and Arctic sea-ice and oceans and corals and seasons are in on the scam eh?
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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But it was not only these journeys over ice-sheets and mountain-ranges that were carried out in masterly fashion.
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A victory of human mind and human strength over the dominion and powers of Nature; a deed that lifts us above the grey monotony of daily life; a view over shining plains, with lofty mountains against the cold blue sky, and lands covered by ice-sheets of inconceivable extent; a vision of long-vanished glacial times; the triumph of the living over the stiffened realm of death.
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Octopuses started migrating to new ocean basins more than 30 million years ago as Antarctica cooled and large ice-sheets grew.
Archive 2008-11-01 Staq Mavlen 2008
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Large ice-sheets existed about 91 million years ago, during one of the warmest periods in the past 500 million years, an international team of scientists reports in Science.
The persistence of glaciers... GayandRight 2008
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The worst-case scenario, Dr Rahman said, is if one of the world's land-based ice-sheets breaks up.
Johann Hari: A Journey Across the Ground Zero of Global Warming 2008
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Shell also built a small fleet of ships able to break up or drive away ice-sheets that could pose a threat to floating well platforms.
How Washington Can Help Alaska Drill Lisa Murkowski 2008
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The worst-case scenario, Dr Rahman said, is if one of the world's land-based ice-sheets breaks up.
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Octopuses started migrating to new ocean basins more than 30 million years ago as Antarctica cooled and large ice-sheets grew.
Ancient Climate Change Influenced Modern Octopus Evolution Staq Mavlen 2008
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