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Scientists say Greenland just opened up major new floodgate of ice into the ocean

2015-11-13 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: As the world prepares for the most important global climate summit yet in Paris later this month, news from Greenland could add urgency to the negotiations. For another major glacier appears to have begun a rapid retreat into a deep underwater basin, a troubling sign previously noticed at Greenlands Jakobshavn Glacier and also in the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica. And in all of these cases, warm ocean waters reaching the deep bases of marine glaciers appears to be a major cause. The...

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