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Greenland's ice melt accelerating as surface darkens, raising sea levels
2016-03-03 19:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Greenlands vast ice sheet is in the grip of a dramatic feedback loop where the surface has been getting darker and less reflective of the sun, helping accelerate the melting of ice and fuelling sea level rises, new research has found. The snowy surface of Greenland started becoming significantly less reflective of solar radiation from around 1996, the analysis found, with the ice absorbing 2% more solar energy per decade from this point. At the same time, summer near-surface temperatures in...
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