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Geoengineer Polar Glaciers to Slow Sea-Level Rise
Stalling the fastest flows of ice into the oceans would buy us a few centuries to deal with climate change and protect coasts, argue John C. Moore and colleagues.
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About the Authors
John C. Moore is chief scientist at the College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, China; and professor of climate change at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. Rupert Gladstone is a geoscientist at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. Thomas Zwinger is an application scientist at the CSC-IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland. Michael Wolovick is a glaciologist at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
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