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Glaciers on Greenland, the world's most icy land mass, are now melting most quickly where they are in contact with surrounding ocean, while ice in the high centre remains intact, said Garry Clarke, a professor at the University of British Columbia in this western Canadian city.

But if global warming causes the freezing level to move higher, the loss of ice would be worse than Greenland experienced in previous interglacial pe
riods dating back hundreds of thousands of years.

"It would be the complete disappearance of the Greenland ice sheet," Clarke told a meeting of scientists and journalists. "We still don't know how quickly our rendezvous with this will occur."

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Photo Above: Greenland's ice cap is melting at a frighteningly fast rate.Chunks of ice regularly fall into the sea in Greenland, where ice is melting at a rate three times faster than it was only five years ago. (Science photo by J.A. Dowdeswell)
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