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cheezyboi1234 t1_j13whjq wrote

Do note that the ice sheet and these glaciers are different. Yes, tide water glaciers are melting much faster than expected, but they represent a small portion of all the ice in Greenland compared to the ice sheet that is not tidewater. Source: I’m a glaciology student in university

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Melodic-Lecture565 t1_j16wfxa wrote

The friction of the melt water trickling down from glacial melt lakes causes heat and further melt too, this also has been noticed just recently.

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