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The arctic winter.(Brief article)
In an alarming headline on April 6, the Anchorage Daily News proclaimed: "This winter's Arctic sea ice narrowly missed record low." According to the paper, the lost ice was missing because of global warming.
Interestingly, at roughly the same time the report of missing sea ice was appearing, the Anchorage paper was publishing a number of stories about the extremely cold and long-lasting winter in Alaska this year. On March 29, for instance, in a story headlined "Ice traps five boats," the paper reported that several vessels, including three from Alaska's crab-fishing fleet, had become stuck in ice just offshore from St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea. The same ...
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