CNN: “The amount of ice that melted in Greenland between July 15 and 17 alone – 6 billion tons of water per day – would be enough to fill 7.2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.”
“Put another way, it was enough to cover the entire state of West Virginia with a foot of water.”
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