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Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:03 pm to MIZ_COU
Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:03 pm to MIZ_COU
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Although the amount of southern sea ice is growing, but that's a small amount of ice compared to the southern icecap which is shrinking
There was a recent study that shows the total amount of land ice is growing. Many areas, the collapsing shelves we hear so much about, are shrinking at an alarming rate. Antarctica is currently a sink mitigating sea level rise though.
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Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:09 am to Bigbens42
That is interesting. Found a link to a Washington Post article about that study
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It's a preliminary result. A quote from the article though
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It's a preliminary result. A quote from the article though
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As Jamin Greenbaum, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin who studies East Antarctica, put it by e-mail: Unfortunately, this study doesn’t change the fact that sea level rise has been accelerating since around 1870. Actually, it suggests that Antarctica’s ability to slow that rise is decreasing due to alarming trends in coastal mass loss. For instance, in East Antarctica, Totten Glacier is losing enough mass on its own to balance mass gains in an area larger than Texas.
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