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Nature 440, 608 (30 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440608a; Published online 29 March 2006
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The big freeze
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BOOK REVIEWED-Ice: The Nature, the History and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
by Mariana Gosnell
Alfred A. Knopf: 2005. 576 pp. $30
In its various forms, solid H2O covers large parts of Earth's surface for all or much of the year, with implications for our climate. The reflectivity of snow and sea ice greatly influences the planet's heat budget, with any reduction in coverage providing a positive-feedback mechanism for global warming.
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description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
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javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
root cause
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.

