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Climate Change Has Shifted the Locations of Earth's North and South Poles

2013-06-28 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature: Global warming is changing the location of Earth's geographic poles, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, report that increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet -- and to a lesser degree, ice loss in other parts of the globe -- helped to shift the North Pole several centimeters east each year since 2005. "There was a big change,' says lead author Jianli Chen, a geophysicist. From 1982 to 2005, the pole drifted southeast...

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