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Polar Ice Caps Melting; Sea Levels Rising
A classic piece of BBC 'science' reporting that buries the real conclusions toward the end, in the hope most people don't read that far. This is the interesting paragraph."The study indicates that the contribution of the ice sheets to sea-level rise during the decade studied was much smaller than expected, just two percent of the recent increase of nearly three millimeters a year," he said. A human hair is about a millimeter thick, so over ten years the melting ice caps have raised sea levels about half the width of a human hair. Posted by: phil_b 2006-03-10 |
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