Posted on 09/24/2004 12:01:10 PM PDT by TChris
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of Antarctica's glaciers are melting faster than snow can replace them, enough to raise sea levels measurably, scientists reported on Friday.
Measurements of glaciers flowing into the Amundsen Sea, on the Pacific Ocean side of Antarctica, show they are melting much faster than in recent years and could break up.
And they contain more ice than was previously estimated, meaning they could raise sea level by more than predicted, the international team of researchers writes in the journal Science.
"The ... Amundsen Sea glaciers contain enough ice to raise sea level by 1.3 meters (4 feet)," the researchers wrote in their report.
"Our measurements show them collectively to be 60 percent out of balance, sufficient to raise sea level by 0.24 mm (nearly 0.01 inch) per year," they added.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Women and minorities expected to be hit hardest. It's Bush's fault.
Kool! I wanna see what's underneath them.
Works for me. Sea level goes up, it'll be easier to get a mooring in Marblehead :)
Thin glaciers cause hurricanes, killing thousands of innocent women and cute little babies; All Bush's fault; Film at eleven.
Amazingly, we are not underwater yet....
Call me in 100 years when the sea level is an inch higher ...
Ice is just shifting elsewhere such as the pacific northwest, because at the at the same time glaciers are growing in California and the once hot and fiery caldera on MT St, Helens is now covered in 600 feet of ice
This article is on thin ice in such a board.
1/100 of an inch a year? So in 100 years the sea will rise ONE INCH?
Forgive if I don't get in the life boat yet....
I figured this would get some great responses! ...and I am not disappointed. :^)
Place a lot of ice cubes in a bowl (large salad bowl), then fill with water until the ice floats.
When the water over flows the bowl, that's when you can panic, It won't happen though. It's called Displacement. The ice floating in the water already has taken the space of the melt water that will replace the area the ice has taken up. Water level will not increase.
Luckily, the thick ones are simultaneously getting thicker...
I heard somewhere that the ice on the opposite side of Antartica is growing thicker.
It's happening on Mars too...
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/mars011207.html
Those damn rovers...
caught that too huh.
EEK EEK sea levels may rise 4 FEET!!!! in 4800 YEARS!!!
Thank you. I was just going to post the same thing - you saved me the trouble.
I swear, people must just love to have something to panic about.
Hehe, P.T. Barnum said it all, "there's a sucker born every minute".
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