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Future of the Greenland ice sheet

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Ice-sheet loss is a likely effect of human interference with the climate system. Research shows that the disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet could occur close to, or even below, the target of limiting warming to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

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  1. Gerhard Krinner and Gaël Durand are at Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE), CNRS and UJF-Grenoble 1, BP96, 38402 St. Martin d'Hères Cedex, France,

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Krinner, G., Durand, G. Future of the Greenland ice sheet. Nature Clim Change 2, 396–397 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1557

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