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- noun Plural form of
icecap .
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Examples
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The area of the icecaps is a much less significant factor in relation to the amount of frozen ice in the world, as opposed to their actual thickness.
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The polar icecaps were expanding rapidly so that by 1980, or 1985, two - thirds of America would be under a glacier.
Reader Responses 2010
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The products built in the factories of GM, Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.
Michael Moore’s advice to Obama on General Motors | FactoryCity 2009
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If it goes up too much it will melt the polar icecaps and flood most of the land we live on.
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Coldest winter in 40 years just finished up – polar icecaps are increasing! thank goodness – maybe I can have my gasoline car back!
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The impending extinction of tigers, the melting icecaps and the ravaging of the rainforests are symptoms of an emerging global crisis.
Britain is growing greener at the expense of the rest of the world Tony Juniper 2010
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The analysis of Greenland icecap is not a unique case - the forecast can be applied to all of the icecaps and glaziers throughout the world see textbox.
Erik Rasmussen: The World's Most Dangerous Epidemic Erik Rasmussen 2011
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It doesn't disprove all the other of research, nor does it change the fact of melting icecaps and the warmest decade on record.
Palin calls for Obama to boycott climate change conference 2009
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The analysis of Greenland icecap is not a unique case - the forecast can be applied to all of the icecaps and glaziers throughout the world see textbox.
Erik Rasmussen: The World's Most Dangerous Epidemic Erik Rasmussen 2011
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The polar icecaps are melting, desalinization of the oceans is occurring, the once great glaciers will be gone within our children's lifetime and their is great destabilization of 'typical' weather patterns for each season.
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