West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Become Unstable As Earth Warms up
Let’s bring up some new Global Warming news today. With all the people calling for a conspiracy in the whole Climate-gate fiasco in the last couple months, we still have reports about possible warming issues going on in the world right now. Melting ice sheets is always one that pops up every few weeks.
A new study examines how ice sheets, such as the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, could become unstable as the world warms. Making the place only comforting for hemorrhoids relief har har.
The team from Oxford University and Cambridge University developed a model to explore how changes in the ‘grounding line’ — where an ice sheet floats free from its base of rock or sediment — could lead to the disintegration of ice sheets and result in a significant rise in global sea level.
‘The volume of ice locked up in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is equivalent to a sea level rise of around 3.3 metres,’ said Dr Richard Katz of Oxford University’s Department of Earth Sciences, an author of the report. ‘Our model shows how instability in the grounding line, caused by gradual climatic changes, has the potential to reach a ‘tipping point’ where disintegration of the ice sheet could occur.’ more
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