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September 15, 2015

Study: Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Melt Antarctica Ice Sheet 
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The fires come as a new report concludes burning all of the world's
coal, oil and natural gas deposits would cause the entire ice sheet
covering Antarctica to melt. Scientists found half the melting could
happen in as few as 1,000 years. Warming oceans and the melting of the
rest of the world's land ice would cause the sea to rise a total of more
than 200 feet. That's enough to consume all of Florida and the entire
U.S. East Coast and to drown Miami, New Orleans, Houston, Washington,
New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. Researcher Ricarda Winkelmann told
The New York Times, "To be blunt: If we burn it all, we melt it all."

 

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