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Zombie ice threatens global sea level rise, 10-inch jump unavoidable
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Zombie ice threatens global sea level rise, 10-inch jump unavoidable

As weather alternate maintains to wreak havoc internationally with excessive droughts in China to heavy floods in elements of India and Pakistan, every other fundamental issue is brewing in an remoted nook of the planet. Greenland is on direction to elevate worldwide sea stages via way of means of as a minimum 27 centimeters or 10.6 inches. The trendy forecast is almost two times as lots because the preceding predictions and it's miles being attributed to some thing referred to as zombie ice. This lifeless ice, even as nevertheless connected to thicker regions of ice, is not getting replenished via way of means of determine glaciers now receiving much less snow and, with none replenishment, is melting from weather alternate unchecked. Researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark and...