Ice Loss In West Antarctica Is Speeding Up

An anonymous reader writes: A new study just published on Antarctic ice loss by Christopher Harig and Frederik Simons of Princeton confirm West Antarctica is losing mass fast. The study used satellite measurements to determine the rate of mass loss. The lead author of the study told The Guardian: "It is very important that we continue long term monitoring of how mass changes in ice sheets. For West Antarctica in particular this is important because of how it is thought to be more unstable, where the feedbacks can cause more and more ice loss from the land over time. These strong regional accelerations that we see are very robustly measured and imply that Antarctica may become a major contributor to sea level rise in the near future. This increase in the mass loss rate, in ten years, accelerations like that show that things are beginning to change on human time scales."

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Re:Great. Let's sit here and wait for the next wav

[phantomfive]

No scientist claims the world is ending

Unless you consider civilization being at risk, 50% of earths species destroyed, and an apocalypse to be 'the end of the world.' Then a scientist has told us the world is ending. If that's not close enough to "the end of the world", then that's it for species on our planet. The oceans could begin to boil.

So you're wrong there, you weren't paying attention. Some scientists are claiming the world is ending (unless we follow their plan).