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These Stunning Photos of Greenland's "Dark Snow" Should Worry You http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1411168101
Jason Box knows ice. That's why what's happened this year concerns him so much.
Box just returned from a trip to Greenland. Right now, the ice there is... black....
The ice in Greenland this year isn't just a little dark--it's record-setting dark. Box says he's never seen anything like it. I spoke to Box by phone earlier this month, just days after he returned from his summer field research campaign.
"I was just stunned, really," Box told me.
The photos he took this summer in Greenland are frightening. But their implications are even more so. Just like black cars are hotter to the touch than white ones on sunny summer days, dark ice melts much more quickly....
Box gives the stunning stats: "In 2014 the ice sheet is precisely 5.6 percent darker, producing an additional absorption of energy equivalent with roughly twice the US annual electricity consumption."
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