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Sea level rising: Earth's ice sheets tracking worst-case climate scenarios

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Coronavirus is not the only problem the world is facing but climate change too is a menace The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers have said, highlighting flaws in current climate change models. Mass loss caused by melt-water and crumbling ice from 2007 to 2017 aligned with the most extreme forecasts.