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Melting glaciers a 'climate tipping point,' Bonn meeting told
2014-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: World leaders need to ensure that global warming is kept low enough to avoid pulling the plug on vast ice shelves in Antarctica, thereby causing a catastrophic sea level rise across the globe, a leading scientist warned yesterday. Dr Anders Levermann, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, noted last months major scientific report warning that a collapse of large sections of the west Antarctica ice shelf had already begun and was now unstoppable. We have entered a new era...
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