New Scientist: The surge of ice loss from Greenland between 2005 and 2010, which drove up sea levels around the world, was not unprecedented. A similar spurt happened in the late 1980s, and possibly decades earlier as well. While such surges will be tricky to predict, better models of the ice sheet mean that we can make more confident long-term predictions of its behaviour - predictions that suggest Greenland's effects on global sea levels may not be as bad as feared. In 2005, the Greenland ice sheet suddenly...
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