Antarctic Ice Melt
Icecaps in the Antarctica with icebergs melting in the sea Photo by Sarah Atoui licensed from 123rf.com
Pro: Antarctic Ice Melt is Dangerous
Climate Change is causing accelerated ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland. This is causing sea level rise to increase dangerously. This rising sea level threatens the homes and livelihoods of 100’s of millions of people living on coasts and low-lying islands. NASA presents this graph showing sea level rise plotted by satellite data, and suggests
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https://everythingclimate.org/topics/antarctic-ice-melt/From USA Today
Greenland and Antarctica have lost 6.4 trillion tons of ice in the past three decades; unabated, this rate of melting could cause flooding that affects hundreds of millions of people by the end of the century, NASA said in a statement.
Satellite observations showed that the regions are losing ice six times faster than they were in the 1990s, according to a new study.
If the current melting trend continues, the regions will be on track to match the “worst-case” scenario of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) of an extra 6.7, (17 centimeters) inches of sea level rise by 2100.
“That’s not a good news story,” study lead author Andrew Shepherd from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, told the BBC.
https://everythingclimate.org/topics/antarctic-ice-melt/
