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Canada's Arctic glaciers headed for unstoppable thaw: study

2013-03-07 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Canadian glaciers that are the world's third biggest store of ice after Antarctica and Greenland seem headed for an irreversible melt that will push up sea levels, scientists said on Thursday. About 20 percent of the ice in glaciers, on islands such as Ellesmere or Devon off northern Canada, could vanish by the end of the 21st century in a melt that would add 3.5 cm (1.4 inch) to global sea levels, they said. Governments are trying to understand every likely centimeter of sea level rise caused...

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