Climate Central: The news that an unusually widespread melt occurred in Greenland during mid-July, when 97 percent of the Greenland ice sheet -- including normally frigid high-elevation areas -- experienced some degree of melting, has made international headlines, and for good reason. Such a widespread melt event has not occurred there since at least 1889, and may be yet another sign of the consequences of manmade climate change. But what does this event mean in the bigger picture of ice melt and sea level rise,...
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