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Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet Might Be Unstoppable
2014-05-12 23:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Scientists have long worried about climate-change induced melting of the huge West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Now they say that not only is the disintegration of the ice already underway, but that it's likely unstoppable. That means that in the coming centuries, global sea levels will rise by anywhere from 4 to 12 feet. As NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports, that's a larger increase than the United Nations expert panel noted last year, but it would occur over a longer time frame - centuries instead...
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