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Glacier on west Greenland in August 2007, as it bends in its normal descent to the sea. Due to warming the melting glacier has retreated far inlandCredit: John Englanderhttps://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?guci=2.2.0.0.2.2.0.0&client=ca-pub-3622156405313063&output=html&h=90&slotname=3ba61e6.55512a6&adk=1550347297&adf=1813269496&pi=t.ma~as.3ba61e6.55512a6&w=728&lmt=1612298169&psa=0&format=728×90&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fscience-and-health%2F.premium-collapse-of-greenland-ice-sheet-to-raise-sea-level-faster-than-expected-1.9500959&flash=0&wgl=1&dt=1612297834232&bpp=309&bdt=70786&idt=2662&shv=r20210201&cbv=r20190131&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&cookie=ID%3D087b7090bd20714b-2296ab2277c6005b%3AT%3D1612297836%3ART%3D1612297836%3AS%3DALNI_Mb3SHl_z5guq4gFmHIkXemhpXcaHw&prev_fmts=0x0&nras=1&correlator=8331324905522&frm=20&pv=1&ga_vid=861100363.1612297791&ga_sid=1612297794&ga_hid=933169505&ga_fc=0&u_tz=-480&u_his=1&u_java=0&u_h=640&u_w=1139&u_ah=607&u_aw=1139&u_cd=24&u_nplug=3&u_nmime=4&adx=49&ady=1356&biw=1123&bih=538&scr_x=0&scr_y=0&eid=21068769%2C21068893%2C21068946%2C21067496&oid=3&pvsid=752869766386047&pem=630&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2F&rx=0&eae=0&fc=896&brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1139%2C0%2C1139%2C607%2C1139%2C537&vis=1&rsz=o%7Co%7CoEebr%7C&abl=NS&pfx=0&fu=8192&bc=31&ifi=8&uci=a!8&btvi=1&fsb=1&xpc=IghYckrBLt&p=https%3A//www.haaretz.com&dtd=MRuth SchusterGet email notification for articles from Ruth SchusterFollowPublished at23:48

The vast ice sheet on Greenland has become unstable and technology isn’t storming to the rescue. The world is not on a trajectory to “curb” global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius – we’re almost there already. “Everybody is asleep. It’s like the Titanic,” wails sea level rise guru John Englander, an oceanographer and author who has made it his life’s mission to shake the…