Study Predicts More Long-Term Sea Level Rise from Greenland Ice (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Study Predicts More Long-Term Sea Level Rise from Greenland Ice

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The researchers ran their model 1500 times, testing a variety of land, ice, ocean and atmospheric variables to see how they affected ice melt rate - including three possible future climate scenarios (from left to right: low, medium, and high emissions out to the year 2300).

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Credits: NASA / Cindy Starr

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