Study Predicts Antarctica Ice Melt if All Fossil Fuels Are Burned By JUSTIN GILLIS
Calving ice near Paradise Harbor in Antarctica in Jan. 2015. The continent's ice sheet and the rest of the world's land ice would melt if all the world's fossil fuels were burned, a new climate study found.
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Burning all the world’s coal, oil and natural gas would lead to temperature increases that would melt Antarctica’s ice sheet and raise sea level more than 200 feet, a new study found.
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