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Greenland’s melting ice sheet will cause seas to rise more during this century than in any of the last 120 – SBS News
If greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, around 36 billion tonnes of the ice sheet could be shed, raising global waterlines by 10 centimetres by the end …
Ice loss from Greenland’s massive ice sheet will cause sea levels to rise more during the 21st century than they have during any 100-year period in the last 12,000 years, even if global warming is held in check, scientists said Wednesday.
The study, based on ice core data and models and published in the journal, Nature, is the first to painstakingly reconstruct Greenland’s ice loss record over the entire course of the Holocene, the geological epoch that has allowed civilisation to flourish.
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