Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Huge rise in sea levels if global warming ignored


Sea levels could rise by up to seven metres if greenhouse gas emissions were not scaled back, a panel of leading geoscientists has told the US Congress.

The warning came as a vast ice shelf, about 260 square kilometres in size, continued to fall away from Greenland's Petermann glacier, the largest iceberg shed by the island in half a century.

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