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Warpy

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5. I don't have access to the whole thing, but I've been keeping up for several years

Reply to Segami (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 22, 2014, 02:44 AM

Mar 2014

The whole Greenland ice sheet seems to be sitting on water that is added to every single summer and is kept from refreezing by warmer winter temperatures combined with the enormous pressure at the bottom. When it goes, it's likely to go rather quickly, over a period of years rather than decades.

If it does, Europe is going to have a rough few decades, maybe longer.

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I don't have access to the whole thing, but I've been keeping up for several years Warpy Mar 2014 #5

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