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Oh, Great: Antarctica and Greenland Are Melting Faster Than Ever

2014-08-21 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Motherboard: Oh great, ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland are melting at the fastest rate in recorded history. A group of researchers in Germany spent about three years measuring the two ice sheets melting, and figured out that with the two sheets combined, theyre thinning at the rate of about 500 cubic kilometers every year, according to research published yesterday in The Cryopshere. When we compare the current data with those from the ICESat satellite from the year 2009, the volume loss in Greenland...

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