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Climate & Antarctic; Antarctic Total Melt if All Fossil Fuels Burned; Northwest Glaciers to Lose 1-10% this Year
Climate change and the fate of Antarctica. A world-renowned climate scientist visiting New Zealand will this week present new evidence suggesting a behemoth “sleeping giant” ice sheet is more sensitive to climate change than we ever thought.
Study predicts Antarctica ice melt if all fossil fuels are burned. Burning all the world’s deposits of coal, oil and natural gas would raise the temperature enough to melt the entire ice sheet covering Antarctica, driving the level of the sea up by more than 160 feet, scientists reported Friday.
‘Disastrous’: Low snow, heat eat away at Northwest glaciers. Glaciers across the North Cascades could lose 5 to 10 percent of their volume this year, accelerating decades of steady decline. One scientist estimates the region’s glaciers are smaller than they have been in at least 4,000 years.
