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Winds, not just global warming, eating away at the ice sheets [1]

Two new studies point to random, wind-induced circulation changes in the ocean--not global warming--as the dominant cause of the recent ice losses through the glaciers draining both the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets.

Publication Date: 
03/10/2008
Richard A. Kerr [2]
Science [3]
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Tags:
Climate Change [4], Global Warming [5], Glacial Melt [6], Greenland [7], Antarctica [8]
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/glacial-melt
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/antarctica