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Antarctic ice sheet
The Antarctic ice sheet is
the largest single mass of
ice on Earth. It covers an
area of almost 14 million
square km and contains 30
million cubic km of ice.
Around 90 percent of the
fresh water on the Earth's
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Ice sheet
An Ice sheet is a mass of
glacier ice that covers
surrounding terrain and is
greater than 50,000 square
kilometers (19,305 square
miles). The only current ice
sheets are Antarctic and
Greenland; during the last
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Greenland ice sheet
The Greenland Ice Sheet is a
vast body of ice covering
roughly 80% of the surface
of Greenland. It is the
second largest ice body in
the world, after the
Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice
sheet is almost 2,400
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IPCC Third Assessment Report
The IPCC Third Assessment
Report is a product of the
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, which is
based in Geneva Switzerland,
and was established in 1988
by two United Nations
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Larsen Ice Shelf
The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long, fringing ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to the area just southward of ... > more -
Instrumental temperature record
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Climate model
Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the ... > more -
Geologic temperature record
This article is devoted to temperature changes in Earth's environment as determined from geologic evidence on multi-million to billion (109) year time scales. The last 3 million years have been ... > more -
Scientific opinion on climate change
Various prominent bodies have commented on global warming, most notably the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). National and international scientific groups have issued statements both ... > more -
Temperature record
The temperature record shows the fluctuations of the temperature of the atmosphere and the oceans through various spans of time. The most detailed information exists since 1850, when methodical ... > more -
Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect is the process in which the emission of infrared radiation by the atmosphere warms a planet's surface. The name comes from an analogy with the warming of air inside a greenhouse ... > more
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