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European and US researchers who claim they've found a better way of measuring the melting ice cap say they're quite sure that Greenland's melting ice cap makes sea levels rise by half a millimeter annually.

Greenland lost an average of 195 cubic kilometers of ice per year between 2003 and 2008, the researchers say in an article published recently in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters. That is enough to cause an annual increase in the global sea level of half a millimetre, or 5 cm over the course of the next century.