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Ice melting in the western Antarctic at an 'unstoppable' pace, warn NASA scientists
2014-05-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Ice is melting in the western Antarctic at an "unstoppable" pace, scientists said Monday, warning that the discovery holds major consequences for global sea level rise in the coming decades. The speedy melting means that prior calculations of sea level rise worldwide made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will have to be adjusted upwards, scientists told reporters. "A large sector of the West Antarctic ice sheet has gone into a state of irreversible retreat. It has passed the...
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Airborne Radar Surveys And Data-Based Models Indicate West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Is Underway
2014-05-13 11:59:35| rfglobalnet News Articles
National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded researchers at the University of Washington have concluded that Antarctica's fast-moving Thwaites Glacier will likely disappear in a matter of centuries, potentially raising sea level by more than a half-a-meter (two feet).
Melt of Key Antarctic Glaciers "Unstoppable"
2014-05-13 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: For decades, the inevitability of many feet, even yards, of sea-level rise in a warming climate has been crystal clear. But societys response, both in stemming heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to eroding coastlines, will always be more a function of the rate of change than the ultimate outcome. Thats why its important to get beyond headlines including the titles of papers in considering new research pointing to the inevitable collapse of ice sheets in West Antarctica....
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Melt of Key Antarctic Glaciers "Unstoppable"
2014-05-12 23:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Sea level rise estimates are going to need to be revised upward: A portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet that is home to some of the fastest-flowing glaciers on the continent appears to have entered a state of retreat and melt that is "unstoppable,' two new studies have found. "It has passed the point of no return,' said Eric Rignot, lead author on one of the studies and a glaciologist at the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet...
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Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet Might Be Unstoppable
2014-05-12 23:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Scientists have long worried about climate-change induced melting of the huge West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Now they say that not only is the disintegration of the ice already underway, but that it's likely unstoppable. That means that in the coming centuries, global sea levels will rise by anywhere from 4 to 12 feet. As NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports, that's a larger increase than the United Nations expert panel noted last year, but it would occur over a longer time frame - centuries instead...
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