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47 Scientists From 36 Laboratories Determine Staggering Ice-Melt Figures From Greenland And Antarctica
Thursday, December 6, 2012 14:55
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The vast ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica have begun melting and sliding into the ocean as heat-trapping greenhouse gases continue to build in the atmosphere. How much and how fast the ice is disappearing, however, has been poorly understood, because the satellites that measure it haven’t always agreed. But a report published Thursday in Science has cleared up much of the uncertainty.
A team of no fewer than 47 scientists from 36 laboratories, looking at data from 10 different satellites, has come up with numbers everyone is on board with: between 1992 and 2011, Greenland has lost an average of 152 billion metric tons of ice per year, while Antarctica has shed 71 billion, contributing 11 millimeters to the rise in sea level over that period — about a fifth of the total (the rest has come from from seawater expanding as it warms and from melting mountain glaciers).
Still doubt global warming? Still dont think there is nothing to alarmist calls for protection of the environment? This is one of those situations where a skepti has to be hit right in the face with facts in order for them to do something. Thats the danger of being a skeptic. Better safe than sorry. Embasrassment be damned, as long as all is well. Be green people. -Mort
Typical arrogance of missing the real point of the argument….. being are people responsible? NO!!!