Al Gore Sounds The Alarm On 0.3 Inches Of Sea Level Rise From Ice Sheets

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Al Gore Sounds The Alarm On 0.3 Inches Of Sea Level Rise From Ice Sheets
3:12 PM 06/14/2018
Michael Bastasch | Contributor

Antarctica’s ice loss has tripled in the last decade, according to a new study that’s got former Vice President Al Gore warning about how ice sheet melt “poses a grave threat to humanity.”

“New, startling evidence of ice sheet melt in Antarctica that poses a grave threat to humanity,” Gore tweeted, linking to a Washington Post article claiming the new study showed “some of scientists’ worst fears about rising oceans could be realized.”

Gore is referring to new research published by a team of 80 scientists in the journal Nature on Wednesday. Scientists claim Antarctic sea ice melt has increased sea level rise.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/14/al-gore-sea-level-rise-ice-sheets/

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NEWS
CLIMATE, EARTH, OCEANS
Antarctica has lost about 3 trillion metric tons of ice since 1992
Ice loss is accelerating and that’s helped raise the global sea level by about 8 millimeters

BY LAUREL HAMERS 1:23PM, JUNE 13, 2018

Antarctica is losing ice at an increasingly rapid pace. In just the last five years, the frozen continent has shed ice nearly three times faster on average than it did over the previous 20 years.

An international team of scientists has combined data from two dozen satellite surveys in the most comprehensive assessment of Antarctica’s ice sheet mass yet. The conclusion: The frozen continent lost an estimated 2,720 billion metric tons of ice from 1992 to 2017, and most of that loss occurred in recent years, particularly in West Antarctica. Before 2012, the continent shed ice at a rate of 76 billion tons each year on average, but from 2012 to 2017, the rate increased to 219 billion tons annually.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/14/good-news-99-989-of-the-antarctic-ice-sheet-didnt-melt/