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Speaking at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Konrad Steffen of the University of Colorado, Boulder, painted a grim picture of Greenland’s current state, describing the amount of ice it lost over the past year as “the equivalent of two times all the ice in the Alps or a layer of water more than one-half-mile deep covering Washington, D.C.” The volume of water unleashed by the melting ice raised global sea levels by close to 2 one-hundredths of an inch; were all of…Keep Reading
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