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GLACIOLOGY: Winds, Not Just Global Warming, Eating Away at the Ice Sheets
Richard A. Kerr
Two new studies point to random, wind-induced circulation changes in the ocean--not global warming--as the dominant cause of the recent ice losses through the glaciers draining both the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets.