Antarctica's Ice Flow Fully Mapped For the First Time

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 21, 2011 @06:16PM from the check-out-all-that-ice dept.

tvlinux writes "Antarctica is a big continent, so mapping all of its ice flow isn't exactly a piece of cake. But for the first time scientists have been able to get the complete picture of the southernmost continent's ice flow, from the South Pole to the shoreline. From the article: '"This is like seeing a map of all the oceans' currents for the first time. It's a game changer for glaciology," said Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the University of California (UC), Irvine. Rignot is lead author of a paper about the ice flow published online Thursday in Science Express. "We are seeing amazing flows from the heart of the continent that had never been described before."'"

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Re:What happened to geology for its own sake? by KeensMustard · 2011-08-21 19:44 · Score: 3, Insightful
This would only be scaremongering if it weren't true.
1. Have you evidence that it is not?
2. Surmising (on presently available evidence) that sea rises due to melting ice is likely, how can talking about it be bad? Surely more knowledge is a good thing?