1.   At the same time, warmer temperatures partly melt the ice sheets at their edges and at lower altitudes.

2.   High temperatures can melt the lanolin that protects a wool rug against soil.

3.   However, Trapotsis said such temperatures melt many plastics, including packaging, and leave the see-through windows on bills shriveled and hard.

4.   Warmer water takes up more room than cold water and higher temperatures melt ice, driving up sea level.

5.   Wheat conditions have been in a precarious position since droughtlike conditions struck shortly after planting and more problems surfaced when warm temperatures melted most of the snow cover.

6.   And in many areas, warm temperatures have melted the snow.

7.   Expected warmer temperatures could melt the snow and cause major flooding.

8.   Rising temperatures will melt polar ice which in turn will raise the sea level, and islands will perish.

9.   Scientists concerned about global warming had worried that higher temperatures could melt the massive ice sheet, causing a rise in sea levels worldwide.

10.   Scientists say rising global temperatures are melting ice caps, in turn submerging coastal areas and altering weather patterns.