Toss These Glaciers in Your Bubble Bath Archimedes
IT TAKES A DIFFERENT KIND OF IDIOT TO IGNORE ICE COVERING A LANDMASS THE SIZE OF GREENLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greenland Melt May Swamp LA, Other Cities, Study Says:
for National Geographic News
Greenland's massive ice sheet could begin to melt this century and may disappear completely within the next thousand years if global warming continues at its present rate. According to a new climate change study, the melting of Greenland's ice sheet would raise the oceans by seven meters (23 feet), threatening to submerge cities located at sea level, from London to Los Angeles.
"A one-meter [three-foot] sea level rise would submerge a substantial amount of Bangladesh," Jonathan Gregory, the study's lead author and a climate scientist at the University of Reading in England, said in a telephone interview.
Scientists have previously calculated that if the annual average temperature in Greenland increases by almost 3° Celsius (5.4° Fahrenheit), its ice sheet will begin to melt.
Many experts believe the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will have reached levels around the year 2100 that would cause the temperature to rise that much.
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