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Greenland Is Getting Darker

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-not-dark-yet-but-it's-getting-there dept.

sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Greenland's white snow is getting darker. Scientists have generally attributed that darkening to larger, slightly less white snow grains caused by warmer temperatures. But researchers have found a new source of darkening taking hold: impurities in the snow. The new darkening effect could easily add 2 centimeters to the projections of 20 cm sea level rise by 2100—and perhaps more if impurity levels grow with time."

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  1. Greenland Is Getting Darker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And Leon's Getting Larrrrrrrrrrrrger

  2. Re:Getting extremely sick of this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    yeah, I hate science too. They try to force evolution, vaccines and all kinds of crap on us, but it is clear to me that we two understands this much better than they do.

  3. Re:Getting extremely sick of this. by DiamondGeezer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Groucho

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  4. Re:More climate lies by rrohbeck · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Try looking up albedo

    Sorry that's too sciency. Don't you have anything at the hurr-durr level?

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