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March 23, 2006
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Computers say the last melting of Greenland's Ice sheet occured under conditions like today's.
This graphic shows the height of the Greenland ice sheet at present (left) and during the last interglacial (about 130,000 years ago), as simulated by the NCAR-based Community Climate System Model coupled with an ice-sheet model.
Credit: Bette Otto-Bliesner, National Center for Atmospheric Research
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