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Never heard of the possibility of the Greenland icesheet sliding off?
Freeman Dyson on Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What about James May, on Have I Got news For You, trying to liken the Greenland icesheet to the ice cubes in his drink.
Boing Boing 2009
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What about James May, on Have I Got news For You, trying to liken the Greenland icesheet to the ice cubes in his drink.
Boing Boing 2009
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What about James May, on Have I Got news For You, trying to liken the Greenland icesheet to the ice cubes in his drink.
Boing Boing 2009
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He outlined this bizarre scenario must have just watched 'Day After Tomorrow' where a huge icesheet from the melting glaciers slides off Greenland because of the water underneath.
‘Global Warming Causes Earthquakes.’ Suuuuure it does. | RedState 2010
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And as a bet, particles landing on an icesheet will only help the melt.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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The team wants to explain how a tiny Norse population managed to survive on the perimeter of the Greenland icesheet 500 years and whether it ever interbred with the Thule Inuit.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
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Precipitation has as much, or probably more, impact on glacier and icesheet advance/retreat than temperature.
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I was referring to the part of the icesheet that used to cover a portion of Rothera Point.
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Yes the main icesheet terminates in Rothera Bay and calves direct into the sea.
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