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The Arctic ¡s

melting

says scientist

Los Angeles (AAP)

A mysterious warming of the Arctic climate is slowly manifesting itself, said Dr Haas Ahlmann, Swedish geophysicist at the University of California yesterday.

If the Antarctic ice regions and the major Greenland icecap should re- duce at the rate of the present melt- ing, he said, the oceanic surfaces would rise to catastrophic propor- tions. People living in the lowlands along the shores would be inundated. Temperatures in the Arctic had increased 10deg fahrenheit since 1900, an "enormous" rise from the scientific standpoint. The level of waters in Spitsbergen area in the same period had risen 1 to 1½ milli- meters a year.

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