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"Unprecedented" Greenland Surface Melt -- Every 150 Years? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1343657172
The flow of news releases and background science content from NASA is generally excellent, but the space agency badly blew it earlier this week with this headline, which has now reverberated around the Web: "Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt."
Unprecedented means "never done or known before." Yet the news release beneath the headline directly undercuts that description of this melting event, saying that it is rare -- the last wide surface melt was in 1889, recorded in separate ice cores at the Greenland ice-sheet summit and in the northwestern part of the vast frozen expanse -- and has happened roughly every 150 years over a long stretch of centuries, as recorded deeper in the ice.
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