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Global Warming Could Drive Pulses of Ice Sheet Retreat Reaching 2,000 Feet Per Day

Inside Climate News · By Bob Berwyn · last updated
New research of seafloor formations near Norway includes findings that keep climate scientists awake at night.

By Bob Berwyn

A new study of the seafloor near the coast of northern Norway brings an ominous warning from the past, showing that some of the planet’s ice sheets retreated in pulses of nearly 2,000 feet per day as the oceans warmed at the end of the last ice age.

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