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New NASA Maps Have Very Bad News For Greenland's Melting Glaciers
The new maps suggest that the effects of climate change on #Greenland will be seen much sooner than expected. It’s hard to estimate the rate of glacier melt without knowledge of how they move and how deep the glaciers extend underwater, but the OMG data revealed what was going on beneath the water’s surface. It showed that two to four times as many glaciers actually extend deeper than 600 feet below sea level than scientists previously thought."