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== Card #19: Melting Ice Sheets ==
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|title=Melting of Ice Sheets
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}}<ref>[https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/WG1AR5_SummaryVolume_FINAL_FRENCH.pdf#page=56 Page 41 of the Technical Summary of the 5th IPCC Report]</ref>
 
Greenland and Antarctica are ice sheets (or continental glaciers). If they were to completely melt, they will cause the sea level to rise by 7
metres for Greenland and 54 metres for Antarctica. During the last ice age, ice sheets were so much larger that the sea level was 120 metres lower than today.
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