Greenland’s largest glaciers likely to melt faster than feared: study – Phys.org

The three largest glaciers in Greenlandwhich hold enough frozen water to lift global sea levels some 1.3 metrescould melt faster than even the worst-case warming predictions, research published Tuesday showed.
Until 2000, the main driver of sea level rise was melting glaciers and the expansion of ocean water as it warms.
But over the last two decades, the world’s ice sheets atop Greenland and Antarctica have become the single largest source of sea level rise.
A team of researchers based in Denmark…

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