Climate Central: The Greenland ice sheet is poised for another record melt this year, and is approaching a "tipping point" into a new and more dangerous melt regime in which the summer melt area covers the entire land mass, according to new findings from polar researchers.
The ice sheet is the focus of scientific research because its fate has huge implications for global sea levels, which are already rising as ice sheets melt and the ocean warms, exposing coastal locations to greater damage from storm surge-related......
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Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Nearing Critical ‘Tipping Point’
Posted by Climate Central: Andrew Freedman on June 29th, 2012
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