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Greenland’s rapid melting could mess with the oceanic “conveyer belt” — with drastic consequences

by Matthew Rosza, Salon Highlights A study published in the scientific journal Nature details how Greenland’s largest ice sheet is on track to start melting faster than it has in the past 12,000 years, resulting between 8,800 and 35,900 billion tonnes of ice loss over this century The loss of Greenland’s ice can result in … Read more

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We are on track with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario

Melting glacier

by the European Space Agency Highlights: A new report from an international team of polar scientists concludes that ice losses from Antarctica and Greenland are rising faster than expected, leading the region to the IPCC’s worst-case climate warming scenario: Greenland and Antarctica lost 6.4 trillion tonnes of ice which has pushed global sea levels up … Read more

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