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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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From: Wharf Rat9/23/2014 8:48:12 PM
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Why climate science denial courtesy of the New York Post measures five miles high
Scientists respond to climate science denialists’ claims in Murdoch-owned New York Post

a recent assessment published in March 2014 in the journal The Cryosphere used new satellite measurements to estimate that the world’s major ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are now shrinking at the rate of about 500 cubic kilometres a year.

just how much is it?

If you took all the ice disappearing every year from Antarctic and Greenland and covered Manhattan Island with it, you’d have a chunk of ice more than five miles high.

For every second it takes you to read this blog post, ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica lost more than 15,000 tonnes of ice (some clever techy person should do one of those ‘fun’ countdown widget thingies).

theguardian.com
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