MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Antarctica ice sheet loss has doubled since 2010, shows CryoSat satellite
The Antarctic ice sheet has lost ice twice as quickly in the past three years as when it was last surveyed between 2005 and 2010, say scientists. Results from the CryoSat-2 satellite mission, published Monday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, say the largest ice sheet on Earth is now losing 159 billion tons of ice each year. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThis rate of loss is slower than 'watching paint dry', but just because we can't appreciate this rate of change doesn't mean it is not happening.
May 20th, 2014 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'Over the coming centuries, the loss ... would trigger a global rise in sea levels of up to five meters.'
A good job the cities on the coast have sufficient time to relocate to higher ground.
Some say its in CFKs freezer...lol
May 20th, 2014 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think there is far more practical things to worry about NOW than something that on it's own will take 100 years to raise the sea level by 45mm.
May 20th, 2014 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0NASA trying scare tactics again.
Besides after the next ice age, it will all freeze up again,
May 20th, 2014 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and we wont be here, lol
hopefully.
Will there be anything left for Argentina to claim 'sovereignty' over?
May 21st, 2014 - 03:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0We need to know.
Bahahaha!
Lets hope they never ever get into space..lol
May 21st, 2014 - 12:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They have already claimed most of Alpha Centurai and are more than satisfied by Chilean support on this matter.
May 21st, 2014 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Timmerman has stressed that their claim has been ratified by the Rest Of The World!
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