Rising sea levels could break Earth's largest ice sheet

[lovuian]

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Washington, June 25 : A new study undertaken by the University of Victoria in Wellington, New Zealand, has suggested that rising sea levels brought on by the phenomenon of global warming could eventually lead to the destruction of Earth's largest ice sheet in the East Antarctic region.

According to Andrew Mackintosh and members of his research team, the the air over the East Antarctic ice sheet will remain chilly enough to prevent significant melting for at least a century.

But after that, rising sea levels, caused by melting elsewhere, could be the ice sheet's undoing, Mackintosh adds.

Mackintosh and his team gauged the ice sheet's past thickness by measuring how high the ice had deposited boulders in Antarctica's Framnes mountains during a period spanning the end of the last Ice Age. The team found that from 13,000 to 7000 years ago, when sea levels rose by 100 metres, the ice sheet thinned by 200 to 350 metres.

Rising waters would have lifted the buoyant ice sheet's edges off its rocky base, causing pieces to detach and melt, the researchers claim.
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I'm thinking water world

[lonestarnot]

1. Man the damn boats!

[Bobbieo]

2. Please , not 'Water World '- That was one of the worst films

I have ever seen!

[Vogon_Glory]

3. When The Water Rises...

When the oceans rise and flood out thousands of miles of coastal areas and ruin trillions of dollars of infrastructure, right wingie-dingies will STILL be denying global warming.

Question for all: Will Jeb Bush's grandchildren anchor their yachts over Disney World?