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Study blames humans for most of melting glaciers
2014-08-14 21:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world's glaciers can be blamed on humans, a new study finds. Scientists looking at glacier melt since 1851 didn't see a human fingerprint until about the middle of the 20th century. Even then only one-quarter of the warming wasn't from natural causes. But since 1991, about 69 percent of the rapidly increasing melt was man-made, said Ben Marzeion, a climate scientist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. "Glaciers are really shrinking...
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