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ACIA, op. cit. note 27; Steven C. Amstrup, Bruce G. Marcot, and David C. Douglas, Forecasting the Range-wide Status of Polar Bears at Selected Times in the 21st Century (Reston, VA: U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), 2007), p. 2.

Julienne Stroeve et al., “Arctic Sea Decline: Faster than Forecast”, Geophysical Research Letters , vol. 34 (May 2007); National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), “Arctic Sea Ice Shatters All Previous Record Lows”, press release (Boulder, CO: 1 October 2007); R. Kwok et al., “Thinning and Volume Loss of the Arctic Ocean Sea Ice Cover: 2003–2008”, Journal of Geophysical Research , vol. 114 (7 July 2009).

David Adam, “Meltdown Fear as Arctic Ice Cover Falls to Record Winter Low”, Guardian (London), 15 May 2006; Kevin Rollason, “Arctic to See First Ice-Free Summer in 2015”, Canwest News Service (Canada), 6 December 2008; Винсент процитирован в работе: David Ljunggren, “Arctic Summer Ice Could Vanish by 2013: Expert”, Reuters , 5 March 2009: Струве процитирован в статье: “Arctic Ice Retreating 30 Years Ahead of Projections”, Environment News Service , 30 April 2007.

NSIDC, “Processes: Thermodynamics: Albedo” — см.: nsdic.org/seaice/ processe/albedo.html; просмотрено автором 26 июля 2007 г.

UNEP, op. cit., note 2.

J. L. Chen, C. R. Wilson, and D. D. Tapley, “Satellite Gravity Measurements Confirm Accelerated Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet”, Science , vol. 313 (29 September 2006), pp. 1, 958–960; Isabella Velicogna and John Wahr, “Acceleration of Greenland Ice Mass Loss in Spring 2004”, Nature , vol. 443 (21 September 2006), pp. 329–331; S. B. Luthke et al., “Recent Greenland Ice Mass Loss from Drainage System from Satellite Gravity Observations”, Science , vol. 314 (24 November 2006), pp. 1, 286–289; “Gravity Measurements Confirm Greenland’s Glaciers Precipitous Meltdown”, Scientific American , 19 October 2006.

Paul Brown, “Melting Ice Cap Triggering Earthquakes”, Guardian (London), 8 September 2007; Robert W. Corell, discussion with Jignasha Rana, Earth Policy Institute, 15 July 2009.

Ohio State University, “Greenland’s Glaciers Losing Ice Faster This Year than Last Year, Which Was Record-Setting Itself”, news release (Columbus, OH: 13 December 2008).

H. Jay Zwally et al., “Surface Melt-Induced Acceleration of Greenland Ice-Sheet Flow”, Science , vol. 297 (12 July 2002), pp. 218–222.

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“Giant Antarctic Ice Shelves Shatter and Break Away”, Environment News Service , 19 March 2002; слова Вона приведены в статье: Andrew Revkin, “Large Ice Shelf in Antarctica Disintegrates at Great Speed”, New York Times , 20 March 2002.

“Breakaway Bergs Disrupt Antarctic Ecosystem”, Environment News Service , 9 May 2002; “Giant Antarctic Ice Shelves Shatter and Break Away”, op. cit. note 39.

NSIDC, «Larsen B Ice Shelf Collapses in Antarctica” — см.: nsidc.org/ news/press/larsen_B/2002.html, 21 March 2002; “Breakaway Bergs Disrupt Antarctic Ecosystem”, op. cit. note 40; “Giant Antarctic Ice Shelves Shatter and Break Away”, p. cit. note 39.

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Peter Brown, “NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice”, Scientific American , July 2008).

NASA Earth Observatory, “Wilkins Ice Bridge Collapse” — см.: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php? id=37806, размещено на сайте 8 апреля 2009 г.

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Robin McKie, “Scientists to Issue Stark Warning Over Dramatic New Sea Level Figures”, Guardian (London), 8 March 2009; IPCC, op. cit note 1, p. 13; Pfeffer, Harper, and O’Neel, op. cit. note 2; USGS, Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.4: Abrupt Climate Change (Washington, DC: 2009), p. 9.

McGranahan et al., op. cit. note 26.

Там же.

World Glacier Monitoring Service, University of Zurich, “Glacier Mass Balance Data 2006 and 2007” — см.: www.geo.uzh.ch/wgms/mbb/ mbb10/sum07.html, материал обновлен 30 января 2009 г.

Lester R. Brown, “Melting Mountain Glaciers Will Shrink Grain Harvests in China and India”, Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 20 March 2008).

USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution , электронная база данных — см.: www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, материал обновлен 12 мая 2009 г.

IPCC, op. cit. note 3, pp. 493–494; Emily Wax, “A Sacred River Endangered by Global Warming”, Washington Post, 17 June 2007.

Clifford Coonan, “China’s Water Supply Could be Cut Off as Tibet's, Glaciers Melt”, The Independent (London), 31 May 2007; UNEP, op. cit. note 2, p. 131; об орошении посевов риса водами реки Янцзы см.: «Yangtze River — Agriculture”, Encyclopedia Britannica , online encyclopedia, просмотрено 25 июля 2007 г.

Qiu, op. cit. note 12.

UNEP, op. cit. note 2, p. 131; Mehrdad Khalili, “The Cilmate of Iran: North, South, Kavir (Desert), Mountains”, San’ate Hamlo Naql , March 1997, pp. 48–53.

Lonnie Thompson, “Disappearing Glaciers Evidence of a Rapidly Changing Earth”, American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, San Francisco, February 2001; Lonnie Thompson, “Receding Glaciers Erase Records of Climate History”, Science News , 14 February 2009; “The Peak of Mt Kilimanjaro As It Has Not Been Seen for 11,000 Years”, Guardian (London), 14 March 2005; Bancy Wangui, “Crisis Looms as Rivers Around Mt. Kenya Dry Up”, East Africa Standard , 1 July 2007.

Eric Hansen, “Hot Peaks”, OnEart h, fall 2002, p. 8.

Leslie Josephus, “Global Warming Threatens Double-Trouble for Peru: Shrinking Glaciers and a Water Shortage”, Associated Press , 12 February 2007; Citation World Atlas (Union NJ: Hammond World Atlas Cor poration, 2004); Thompson, “Receding Glaciers”, op. cit. note 56.