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Re:Half of Glaciers Vanish with 1.5 Degrees of Warming by dotancohen on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:18AM (#37463994) 

  > 1.74% of total water on earth
That is still a lot of water, and the phase change is a terrific heat reservoir. It takes a comparable amount of energy to melt water from -1 to 1 degrees, as it does to bring the water from 1 degrees up to 99 degrees.
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