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Published online 26 October 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011101-2

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The smart money is on global warming.

An Alaskan sweepstake has become a record of global warming. The competition to predict when ice will melt reveals that, on average, the thaw comes more than five days earlier now than it did 84 years ago1.

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