I get to the 2nd canary in the mine include Antarctica, by far the largest mass of ice on Earth. Someone I met on WEO said: "If there floes break off you have to watch along the Antarctic Peninsula. That is a warning that global warming. "If we look at closer every green piece you see an ice field larger than Rhode Island which was demolished in the last 25 years. We focus on this piece, it is called Larsen B. Look at that dark lakes. It seems that we see through the ice underneath the ocean, but that is an illusion. It is meltwater that forms lakes. From a helicopter, you see that the cream rises over 200 meters which is so majestic and gigantic. Further on are the mountains and just for this is the mainland. The distance of the sea ice and the ice on the slopes to the mountains is about 50 km. |
This seemed to be at least 100 years untouchable even by global warming. The scholars who did research here were stunned when they saw these images. As of January 31, 2002 was 35 days this whole piece of ice disappeared.
They could not explain how this could happen. When she assessing the fulfillment where the fault lay in their research, they focused on the lakes of meltwater. Before she knew what had happened was still wrong.
When the sea ice broke off the ice came loose that began to fall into the sea as if the cork was off. There is a difference between sea and land ice. Namely as an ice cube in a glass of water melts the water level does not rise. But, if a block melting state on a stack of ice cubes, this allows about steaming the glass.
Look at West Antarctica, which is a good example of what land and sea ice do because there is both. It is pushed up on islands but beneath seawater comes up so warmer water is doing its job. If this were to melt the sea everywhere would rise more than 6 meters. The changes under this platform are worrying because that the situation is still relatively more stable than another ice shelf of the same size.