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Study finds Greenlands ice may not be as vulnerable to climate change as scientists feared

2013-01-25 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Houston Chronicle: New research suggests that Greenland`s vast ice sheet isn`t as fragile as some climate scientists feared. The work, published in Nature this week (see abstract), indicates the majority of ice on Greenland could remain intact for hundreds of years even if the planet warms considerably. The study used ice cores to study conditions during a period of natural global warming that occurred between 115,000 and 130,000 years ago, when temperatures were about 14.5 Fahrenheit degrees higher than they...

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