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cast to fall over parts of the central

Rockies, central and northern Plains

and the upper Great Lakes region,” Ac-

cuWeather meteorologist Brandon

Buckingham said. “From 6-12 inches of

snow is forecast in parts of Colorado,

Wyoming and western Nebraska, as

well as a portion of the Upper Peninsula

of Michigan.”

Major metro areas in the path of the

snowstorm include Denver and Minne-

apolis. Moderate accumulations are ex-

pected in the Denver metro area, with

higher amounts, as usual, in the west-

ern and southern foothills, the Weather

Channel said. Minneapolis could see a

“plowable snowfall.”

A blizzard is forecast for portions of

the north-central U.S. this week, which

will make travel “difficult if not impos-

sible” in some areas.

Weather on the last day of winter

“will seem more like the middle of Jan-

uary for an approximate 1,200-mile-

long swath of the central United States

on Thursday,” AccuWeather said.

Blizzard conditions will spread

across portions of Colorado, Wyoming,

Nebraska and South Dakota, because of

strong winds and a heavy rate of snow.

“A general 3-6 inches of snow is fore-

Blizzard is forecast

for north-central US

Doyle Rice

USA TODAY

Here’s some unsettling news from
the other global crisis.
Greenland and Antarctica have lost
6.4 trillion tons of ice in the past three
decades; unabated, this rate of melting
could cause flooding that affects hun-
dreds of millions of people by the end of
the century, NASA said in a statement.
Satellite observations showed that
the regions are losing ice six times fast-
er than they were in the 1990s, accord-
ing to a new study.
If the current melting trend con-
tinues, the regions will be on track to
match the “worst-case” scenario of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change of an extra 6.7 inches of sea lev-
el rise by 2100.
“That’s not a good news story,” study
lead author Andrew Shepherd, from
the University of Leeds in the United
Kingdom, told the BBC.
Scientists said that the two ice
sheets together lost 81 billion tons per
year in the 1990s, compared with
475 billion tons of ice per year in the
2010s – a whopping sixfold increase.
“Today, the ice sheets contribute
about a third of all sea-level rise,
whereas in the 1990s, their contribu-
tion was actually pretty small at about

5%,” Shepherd told the BBC. “This has

important implications for the future,

for coastal flooding and erosion.”

The resulting meltwater boosted

global sea levels by 0.7 inch. Of this to-

tal sea-level rise, 60% resulted from

Greenland’s ice loss and 40% resulted

from Antarctica’s.

The findings were published by an

international team of 89 polar scien-

tists from 50 organizations; they are

the most comprehensive assessment

to date of the changing ice sheets,

NASA said.

While it’s true that the seas have ris-

en and fallen before, what’s new is the

enormity of coastal development

around the world that will need to be

protected, moved or abandoned due to

sea-level rise from human-caused

global warming.

Sea level has risen nearly 8 inches

worldwide since 1880, but, unlike water

in a bathtub, it doesn’t rise evenly. In

100 years, it has climbed about a foot or

more in some U.S. cities because of

ocean currents and land subsidence.

“Every centimeter of sea-level rise

leads to coastal flooding and coastal

erosion, disrupting people’s lives

around the planet,” Shepherd said.

The study was published last week

in the peer-reviewed British journal

Nature.

Ice melt is accelerating in

Greenland and Antarctica

A view of icebergs near Kulusuk Island, off the southeast of Greenland, shows a
region that has an accelerated rate of ice loss.NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

Doyle Rice
USA TODAY

MOUNT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Mich.

• A dog from Florida, missing for more
  than two months, has been found 1,
  miles away in Michigan.
  Kris Gibson discovered Simba last
  week standing at her fence in Mount
  Morris Township, north of Flint. She
  lured him with a snack and took him to
  an animal clinic, which confirmed the
  dog’s identity through his microchip.

“Usually when I find dogs, they nev-

er ever have a chip. I was pretty

shocked,” Gibson told MLive.com.

Kassidy Gruno, a veterinary assis-

tant at Mayfair Animal Hospital, be-

lieves the dog, a Canary mastiff, might

have been abducted with the intent of

selling him. Simba is from Miami.

“They are thousand-dollar dogs,”

Gruno said.

Gibson was making arrangements to

return Simba to Florida.

Simba, a dog that was missing from Florida for more than two months, has been

found 1,400 miles away in Michigan.KRIS GIBSON

Lost Florida dog, Simba, found

1,400 miles away in Michigan

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