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How long to melt all the polar ice?
The answers to this question say that the sea level will rise 66m if all the polar ice, etc, melts.
How long will this take?
Transporting incredible amounts of heat energy to the poles and injecting ...
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Considering how old the Antarctic ice cover is, why isn't it much thicker?
The Wikipedia article on the subject of the "Antarctic ice sheet" says that:
The icing of Antarctica began in the middle Eocene about 45.5 million
years ago and escalated during the Eocene–...
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How does ice-penetrating radar "see" through kilometers of ice without being absorbed?
The BBC News article Isolated lakes found beneath Canadian ice sheet links to the open access Science Advances article Discovery of a hypersaline subglacial lake complex beneath Devon Ice Cap, ...
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Help understanding radar data in subglacial lake complex beneath Devon Ice Cap
The BBC News article Isolated lakes found beneath Canadian ice sheet links to the open access Science Advances article Discovery of a hypersaline subglacial lake complex beneath Devon Ice Cap, ...
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