From what the article says, maybe we would be a lot better off if there was a half mile of water covering Washington.... :)
Greenland Ice Melting at Record Rate. 
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Speaking at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Konrad Steffen of the University of Colorado, Boulder, painted a grim picture of Greenland's current state, describing the amount of ice it lost over the past year as "the equivalent of two times all the ice in the Alps or a layer of water more than one-half-mile deep covering Washington, D.C."
The volume of water unleashed by the melting ice raised global sea levels by close to 2 one-hundredths of an inch; were all of...
 [TreeHugger]
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