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Greenland's Past Melt Is a Cost Estimate, Not a Comfort

Pollen found under 500 meters of Greenland ice confirmed that Prudhoe Dome melted completely around 7,000 years ago. Some coverage treated this as reassuring. The study's own numbers say otherwise: we are on pace to recreate those conditions by 2100, this time in decades instead of millennia.

By Vera Santos · 3 min read

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The Ice Sheet's Plumbing Problem Is Older Than We Admit

Subglacial meltwater channels drove catastrophic floods 12,000 years ago, scouring bedrock at Niagara Falls velocity. The mechanism is physically real and active. The problem is we are not measuring it well enough to know how much it is changing our sea level future.

By Vera Santos · 3 min read