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Archive - Nov 24, 2009
Greenland ice melting 3 times faster, loss of vast ice sheet & weight which affects Earth gravitational pull
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Greenland ice cap melting at triple the rate of just a decade ago
Greenland ice cap is disappearing at the rate of 300 Lake Windermeres a year. More than 273 gigatons of water is now pouring into the oceans annually, raising sea levels by nearly a millimeter every year, satellite imaging has shown. Such is the change in the vast ice sheet that the loss of weight is actually changing its affect on the earth's gravitational pull, the study in Science claims. One gigaton could provide enough water for 17 million people in Britain and is the volume of Lake Windermere, Britain's biggest water mass.
