Sunny summer skies are driving ice melt in Greenland

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By Andrea ThompsonJun 29, 2017, 1:52 pm122 pts
In the past two decades, the Greenland ice sheet has become the biggest single contributor to rising sea levels, mostly from melt across its vast surface. That surface melt is, in turn, driven mostly by an uptick in clear, sunny summer skies, not just rising air temperatures, a new study finds. What’s causing…

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