Earth's ice sheets melting sooner than expected: New Study

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7:38 AM Wed 9 Mar 2011 GMT

'Ice sheets recorded as melting faster than expected' .

Unless you live in the Maldives you may not be able to sail down your main street any time soon, but it's undeniably getting easier and easier to sail the North West Passage. Sadly, all credible scientists are in agreement that Global Warming, the reality we all shy away from facing, is coming to an area near you soon. The bad news is that according to a new credible study, it will be sooner than expected. According to the new study led by Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the ice sheets covering both ends of Earth are losing ...

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