Greenland Ice May Melt Much Faster - UN Scientist

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Greenland Ice May Melt Much Faster - UN Scientist

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42798/story.htm

LONDON - New research shows that man-made climate change could cause the Greenland ice sheet to break up in hundreds, rather than thousands, of years, the chair of a United Nations panel of scientists said on Monday.

Its entire collapse would raise sea-levels globally by around 7 metres (23 feet), they said.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its five-yearly report earlier this year, and described threats from global warming including sea-level rise of up to 79 centimetres this century.
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1. Buh-bye Manhattan.

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