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The peoples of the Arctic and the small islands of this world face many of the same threats.
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I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days. John Burnside
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Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges. David Suzuki
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I don't care about champagne backstage or anything else - the one thing I need to specify is that I can't have any Arctic drafts on stage. Siouxsie Sioux
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Rep. Nancy Johnson has always been a champion of legislation to protect the Arctic Refuge as a wilderness area. Showing great independence, Rep. Johnson has led the effort in the House to block efforts to use the budget process to open up the refuge to oil and gas exploration. Her leadership has been indispensable to the millions of Americans who place a priority on safeguarding our environment and protecting America?s great wilderness areas.
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Our military is being held hostage by this issue, Arctic drilling. Harry Reid
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In the Arctic countries and southern Europe, ... it will become harder and harder to sustain current living and consumption patterns.
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Instead of being this tiny player, (ozone) can be more like 30 or 40 or even 50 percent of the cause of warming that we're seeing in the Arctic now. It's very dramatic.
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By using the budget bill primarily as a vehicle for Arctic Refuge drilling, the Senate has dropped any pretense of working to balance the budget or reduce the deficit. The Senate is treating the budget process as a joke and a special interest gravy boat. Carl Pope
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Canada's sovereignty over Hans Island is longstanding and based on a solid foundation in international law. This includes the discovery of the Arctic islands by British explorers and subsequent devolution to Canada. Pierre Pettigrew
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The minimal oil resources in the Arctic Refuge will not make a timely or significant contribution to US energy supplies,
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The changes we've seen in the Arctic over the past few decades are nothing short of remarkable.
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The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there. Aleqa Hammond
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It's very hard to write a story with only one character. This is because readers want to see your protagonist interacting with others. We come to know people through their interpersonal relations. Even Jack London, in his classic short story 'To Build A Fire,' gave his lone Arctic explorer a dog so that the character would have someone to talk to. Nancy Kress
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It's designed to protect Big Oil while mistakenly believing that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will solve America's energy problems.
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Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.
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The latest national Weather Service outlook is forecasting below-normal temperatures through February 21st, but an arctic cold blast is not expected. Michael Fitzpatrick
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They mapped the Arctic Ocean with this thing.
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There really hasn't been much Arctic high pressure up there to come down, and what has come down has been a glancing blow. Even Canada isn't that cold. You have to go way up by Hudson Bay ? and way up in northern Alaska, to find anything well below zero.
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It's a weather story. After experiencing an incredible Arctic weather pattern in most of December there is now evidence of a warm-up after Christmas.
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It's a big wakeup call to all the record companies, the establishment, if you like. This lot caught them all napping. We are living in a completely different era, which the Arctic Monkeys have done an awful lot to bring about.
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When we were getting pretty close to signing him, he called us from one of his maneuvers. I asked him, 'Where are you guys?' He said, 'Up north.' I said, 'Where up north?' He said, 'The Arctic Circle.' That was different. He e-mailed us a picture from there. He had his parka off.
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Another thing to get used to in the Arctic is being in the food chain. There are polar bears there, and polar bears eat people. So we carry weapons. Neil Shubin
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Oil development in the arctic wildlife refuge makes as much sense as chopping down the giant redwoods for firewood.
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Arctic Monkeys have made it look as easy as falling off a log. They're just, basically, four lads from Sheffield; teenagers who've put together their songs and released them through the Internet.
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Arctic energy from Canada was driving steadily southward, while this ball of tropical energy from the hurricane was moving northward. When they met, it caused this storm to explode, in weather terms.
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I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places. Robin Day
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A friend had an airplane. I went for a ride and it turned into a passion, ... My family has flown and camped everywhere from the Florida Keys to 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle. George Osborne
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Things still look to be fairly mild next week, even into two weeks. We don't see the return of that arctic air.
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This is a real eye-opener set of results. The last time the Arctic was significantly warmer than the present day, the Greenland Ice Sheet melted back the equivalent of two to three meters of sea level.
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This is probably the most threatened the Arctic refuge has been since 1960, when it was established as a reserve by President Dwight Eisenhower.
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We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years. Lois Capps
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I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.