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If we burned all fossil fuels, would any of Antartica's ice survive?

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imageHow much staying power? A calving front of the Antarctic ice sheet.NASA/Jim Yungel, CC BY-SA

Here is a great ‘what-if’: If we (the human race) were to burn all available fossil fuels, could we melt the largest and most stable ice sheet on the planet – Antarctica? Could our collective industrial impacts on...

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