Posted on 05/12/2015 6:08:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Paris (AFP) - The largest ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula is being thinned by warmer seas and air and could catastrophically break up, scientists said on Wednesday.
The loss of the Larsen C ice shelf could occur within a century but an earlier collapse cannot be ruled out, with major consequences for global sea levels, they said.
"We now know that two different processes are causing Larsen C to thin and become less stable," said Paul Holland from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) who led the new research.
"If this vast ice shelf... was to collapse, it would allow the tributary glaciers behind it to flow faster into the sea. This would then contribute to sea-level rise."
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She’s breaking up, Jim!!
What difference does it make!!
Screw the icebergs!! Let’s get to NYC for the Obammy Awards!!
Hot air sounds about right.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in 2013 that ice loss from Antarctica probably increased from 30 billion tonnes a year in the decade to 2001 to 147 billion tonnes annually in the following decade (AFP Photo/Torsten Blackwood)
You’ll be glad to know the ozone hole is closing .. :-)
Where will the liberals instead be safe to destroy these cities through their own policies?
And the solution is to send all your money to the United Nations.
But I'm sure if we pump many billions of dollars into the hands of scientists, research fellows, publications and organizations they'll find a way to tell us how much worse it is all getting due to (some form of climate change.)
This October 27, 2014 photo provided by NASA shows the shadow of NASA'’s DC-8 on Antarctic sea ice (AFP Photo/)
Damn! I'd better unload that oceanfront property I bought and move to the Rockies!
Other locations in the Antarctic have record levels of ice, I believe.
Wonder why we wre not hearing sbout that.
Oh, yeah? Maybe it’s the exhaust from all the planes flying over it to check it which is causing the warming.
I’m busy right now but maybe I can catch it next time.
When I hear ‘scientists’ issue warnings BEFORE their findings I immediately detect an agenda.
In before ISIL claims credit....
There’s got to be a James Bond movie plot/script in all of this .. ice shelfs, clinton, militant penguins uhh dunehoppers
But I'm not a scientist. :P
Making the adherents of the church of global warmingism look just a little more ridiculous than usual.
Global warming? Global cooling? Too MUCH ice? Not enough ice?
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