Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Not worst case Greenland's glaciers are slipping into the ocean at an ever increasing rate, but their impact on sea levels may be less than previously predicted, a ten-year study shows. The finding means that global sea levels aren't likely to rise up to two metres by 2100, the worst case scenario proposed by previous studies, which also suggested Greenland would contribute half a metre sea level rise from melted ice sheets. "It looks like we aren't heading towards a worst case scenario," says...
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/05/04/3494907.htm
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