Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica


	Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica

kmcolo

1-14-2008 11:16 AM

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climate change, global warming, antarctica, science

kmcolo says:

The new finding comes days after the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the group's next report should look at the "frightening" possibility that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could melt rapidly at the same time.

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