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Curbing climate change: Why it's so hard to act in time

  • Written by Timothy H. Dixon, Professor, Geology and Geophysics, Natural and human-caused hazards, sea level rise and climate change, University of South Florida
imageMarch for Science, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2017.Shutterstock.com

This summer I worked on the Greenland ice sheet, part of a scientific experiment to study surface melting and its contribution to Greenland’s accelerating ice losses. By virtue of its size, elevation and currently frozen state, Greenland has the potential to cause large and...

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