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Antarctica's ice walls are no match for The Wall in 'Game of Thrones'

December 20, 2017

Until a fire-spewing dragon breached The Wall in Game of Thrones, the 700-foot tall ice fortification kept murderous armies of resurrected dead from entering the Seven Kingdoms. 

Unfortunately, ice walls on Earth aren’t this robust.

Glaciologist Martin Truffer of the University of Alaska Fairbanks recently revealed this reality at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting in New Orleans. Earth’s Antarctic ice walls are far more vulnerable to collapse, and as new, unsettling research suggests, scientists may have underestimated the momentous impact this could have on sea level rise this centuryRead more…

More about Science, Antarctica, Sea Level Rise, Game Of Thrones, and Climate Change
Source: Mashable | Antarctica's ice walls are no match for The Wall in 'Game of Thrones'

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