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If we burned all fossil fuels, would any of Antarctica’s ice survive?

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Andy Ridgwell, University of California, Riverside Here is a great “what-if”: if we (the human race) were to burn all available fossil fuels, could we melt the largest and most stable ice sheet on the planet – Antarctica? Could our collective industrial impacts on the planet possibly have that far a reach? The spoiler is: “yes,”…

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