AP/Honors Econ Make Up Discussion Articles

The summer sea ice is shrinking so much mostly because greenhouse warming is raising Arctic temperatures. This has direct effects: when the air is warmer, more ice melts. It also has indirect effects. Warm, salty water from the North Atlantic sliding below the cold, fresh upper layers of the Barents Sea may be one of them. Another could be that warmer air is often moister. Moist air traps more heat in summer. In winter it tends to create more clouds, which keeps the surface below warm.

ice-albedo effect:

The melt is happening much faster in reality than it does in computer programs.

called the strike to protest against a 14 percent increase in heavily subsidized diesel prices, and a government decision that opens the door to foreign supermarket chains investing in India.

economic reforms aimed at boosting a sharply slowing economy

long demanded by Indian business leaders, were crucial for economic growth.