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Record warm summers cause extreme ice melt in Greenland
01-15-2008 · EurekAlert!An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Edward Hanna at the University of Sheffield, has demonstrated that recent warm summers have caused the most extreme Greenland ice melting in 50 years. The new research provides further evidence of a key impact of global warming and helps scientists place recent satellite observations of Greenland's shrinking ice mass in a longer-term climatic context.
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