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Erudite scientist Bowie Keefer's vision includes diverting warm currents from Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to slow rising sea levels
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Erudite scientist Bowie Keefer's vision includes diverting warm currents from Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to slow rising sea levels
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Ninety per cent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that...
'Ninety percent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that lost from Greenland, travels in narrow, fast ice streams measuring tens of kilometres or less across. Stemming the largest flows would allow the ice sheets to thicken, slowing or even reversing their contribution to sea-level rise."