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Greenland ice sheet is meeeelllting, it's meeelllting! |
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11 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 10:17 AM on 11 Dec 2007 The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate! As in, faster than it has since satellite measurements began in 1979, and with 10 percent more melting in 2007 than in the previous record year of 2005. Allow researcher Konrad Steffen to put it into perspective for you: "The amount of ice lost by Greenland over the last year is the equivalent of two times all the ice in the Alps, or a ... |
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You Say Potato, I Say Climate Emergency
Global warming brings Greenlanders potatoes, destroys their heritage |
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14 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 9:43 AM on 14 Sep 2007 It gets lost in all the gloom and doom, but global warming does have its upside. In the sub-Arctic south of Greenland, rising temperatures over the last five to 10 years have brought residents more potatoes, broccoli, and flowers, and have made officials optimistic about economically beneficial opportunities for drilling and mining as sea ice melts. Of co ... |
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