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Wayne Gilchrest: Greenland is an interesting place because you can go back several hundred years. People were tracking the increasing or…

On the recordMay 18, 2006
Greenland is an interesting place because you can go back several hundred years. People were tracking the increasing or decreasing glacier ice cap. So there is a very accurate record. We saw some 20 years ago that the ice cap really significantly began to melt and about 20 cubic miles of ice was flowing into the North Atlantic. Today, that has increased to 53 cubic miles of ice cap on Greenland flowing in the form of water, melted water, into the North Atlantic. The rate we are going, we are going to lose the Greenland ice cap. When we do lose the Greenland ice cap, sea levels will rise 23 feet around the globe.
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Wayne Gilchrest
Maryland

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