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Ice age data raises new concerns about future ice melt, rising sea levels


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April 5 (UPI) -- A new study, looking back to the last ice age thousands of years ago, has revealed an alarming rate of ice melt, raising new concerns about future ice sheet retreat and rising sea levels.

 

Researchers say the data, released Wednesday in the journal Nature, confirms a large ice sheet covering Eurasia -- between 15,000 and 19,000 years ago -- retreated at the rate of 2,000 feet per day, which is 20 times faster than any retreat rate measured from satellites over the last 50 years.

 

Scientists say the ice melt rate is the fastest they have encountered and exceeds what they thought were the upper bounds for ice sheet retreat, the Eurasian Ice Sheet melt, thousands of years ago, outpaces today's glaciers in Antarctica, which are retreating as much as 160 feet a day.

 

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2023/04/06/norway-study-ice-age-data-reveals-fast-ice-melt/2801680752373/

 

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