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Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Ninety-nine percent of the planet's freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world's populated coastal areas. Last month in Greenland, more than a tenth of the ice sheets surface was melting in the unseasonably warm spring sun, smashing 2010s record for a thaw so early in the year....
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