Why Greenland plays an outsized role in climate change science

How high will the sea eventually rise? Much depends on Greenland. muratart / shutterstock

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“Observing Greenland from a helicopter,” one scientist wrote last year, “the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before … realising what I suspected were floating shards of ice were in fact icebergs the size of office blocks.