It would be fantastic if we could refreeze the Arctic.

如果我们能重新冰冻北极就好了。

And here is what would happen if we could refreeze the Arctic?

我们一路坎坷，如果我们重新冰冻北极会怎样。

Can you refreeze melting Arctic ice?

你们能够重新冻结正在融化的北极冰吗？

We should at least try to refreeze a small portion of it.

至少应该试着重新冻结一小部分。

If the sea refreezes, they can become trapped, unable to feed or reach the surface to breathe.

如果海面再次冻结，它们就会被困住，无法进食，无法探出水面进行呼吸。

The warm air completely melts the ice into rain and then doesn't have time to refreeze back into snow.

温暖的空气将冰完全融化成雨，并且没有时间重新冻结成雪。

It's now thought that this ice dam repeatedly melted and refroze as many as 25 times over several centuries.

现在人们认为，这座冰坝在几个世纪内反复融化并再冻结多达 25 次。

And once your skate passes, the water refreezes.

一旦你的冰鞋通过，水就会重新结冰。

A lot of what melts, however, does not flow away. It later refreezes onto the ice sheet when the weather cools.

然而，许多融化的水并没有流失。当气候变冷时，它会再次冻结在冰盖上。

Much of the melt will refreeze, but the amount that is lost for good might exceed the record loss in 2012.

多数融冰会再次冻结，但永远失去的冰盖数量将打破2012年的记录。