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Washington Post: A massive new study by 16 authors has calculated just how much ice the Greenland ice sheet has lost since the year 1900. And the number, says the paper just out in the journal Nature, is astounding: 9,103 gigatons (a gigaton is a billion metric tons).
That’s over 9 trillion tons in total. And moreover, the rate of loss has been increasing, the research finds, with a doubling of annual loss in the period 2003 to 2010 compared with what it was throughout the 20th century.
The study was led by......
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Greenland has lost a staggering amount of ice — and it’s only getting worse
Posted by Washington Post: Chris Mooney on December 17th, 2015
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