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Climate Change – West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt Won’t Stop Anytime Soon

Benji Jerew — Wed, 14 May 2014 16:17:23 +0000

According to a recent NASA study, climate change is showing its effects on the West Antarctic ice sheet, and it won’t stop. Watching the West Antarctic ice sheet disappear won’t be something worth a month-long trip, but perhaps take a couple hundred years. Even watching the annual ice breakup is a few weeks, but the […]

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Sea Level Rises Faster Due to Warmer Temperatures in West Antarctica

Mila Luleva — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:43:04 +0000

Previous predictions about rates of sea level rise might have been wrong, according to new research. The results indicate that West Antarctica is warming twice as fast hitting the 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3F) average temperature increase since the 1950s. Such findings show that ice sheets are much more likely to melt, which will consequently cause a […]

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