Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Climate change, forest fires drove widespread surface melting of Greenland ice sheet

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Climate change, forest fires drove widespread surface melting of Greenland ice sheet
Dartmouth NH (SPX) May 21, 2014 - Rising temperatures and ash from Northern Hemisphere forest fires combined to cause large-scale surface melting of the Greenland ice sheet in 1889 and 2012, contradicting conventional thinking that the melt events were driven by warming alone, a Dartmouth College-led study finds. The findings suggest that continued climate change will result in nearly annual widespread melting of the ice s ... more


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