Melting ice sheets

This New York Times article reports that Greenland's glaciers are melting even faster than scientists had predicted. They used to think that sea level rise over the next 100 years would be negligible. But, they now say that sea level is likely to rise much faster than previously thought, and that it could rise dramatically even within the next few decades. Guess I better move inland.

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