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To: Rarebird who wrote (1252692)	8/7/2020 8:36:13 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 1576330

Canada’s Last Fully Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Collapses The Arctic has been warming at twice the global rate for the past 30 years. The shelf’s area shrank by about 80 square kilometers. By comparison, the island of Manhattan in New York covers roughly 60 square kilometers. “This was the largest remaining intact ice shelf, and it’s disintegrated, basically,” Copland said. The Arctic has been warming at twice the global rate for the last 30 years, due to a process known as Arctic amplification. But this year, temperatures in the polar region have been intense. The polar sea ice hit its lowest extent for July in 40 years. Record heat and wildfires have scorched Siberian Russia.