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Man-made warming becomes main cause of glacier retreat, study says
2014-08-14 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Man-made greenhouse gas emissions have become the dominant cause of melting in glaciers from the Alps to the Andes that is raising world sea levels, a study said on Thursday. Human emissions accounted for an estimated 69 percent of loss of ice from glaciers from 1991-2010, overtaking natural climate variations that had been the main driver of a retreat since the mid-19th century, researchers wrote in the journal Science. Until now, scientists have struggled to quantify the impact of human behavior...
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