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Greenland Glacier Sheds Manhattan-Sized Chunk

Clapway: A massive chunk of ice, the size of Manhattan, has been severed from Greenland`s Jakobshavn glacier, BBC News reports. ONE OF THE FASTEST GLACIERS IN GREENLAND During the summer, the glacier movies at ten meters a day, according to scientists, a pace which makes it one of the fastest glaciers in Greenland. Using the European Union`s Sentinel satellites, the European Space Agency has been monitoring the glacier and its activity. According to the European Space Agency, the berg that separated...

Global Climate Change: 20 Feet Underwater Optimistic Forecast

Clapway: The future is dark, and the future is wet, says a new paper from the journal Science. Although it forecasts a thirty-five year wait for really heavy climate change, the paper claims that in this time, the sea levels can be expected to rise by at least 20 feet. To make matters bleaker, this is a best-case scenario forecast, i.e. the twenty feet is an optimistic minimum assuming we manage can manage, as a global society, to hold the global temperature at 2 degrees Celsius higher. Many, however, believe...