Study on rising sea levels likely confirms existence of global warming
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Study on rising sea levels likely confirms existence of global warming
Science Recorder | Jessica Lear | Saturday, December 01, 2012
A newly released study finds that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are disappearing three times faster than they were two decades ago, the latest evidence supporting the existence of global warming.
The study was published in the journal Science and is considered an extremely accurate portrayal of ice melts in these polar regions. According to the paper’s authors, the rapid polar ice melting has caused an increase in sea level that may become problematic to low coastal regions.
Perhaps the most alarming data found by the researchers was in Greenland where the ice was melting an estimated five times the rate it was in the mid-1990s. Melt from Greenland accounted for a whopping two-thirds of the polar ice melt. Due to a slower melt rate, just one-third of the world’s melted ice came from Antarctica, despite being larger in size than Greenland.The published data was collected by 47 experts over the span of two decades. The journal article compiled results taken from 50 separate ice melt studies around the world and is the first of its kind. Erik Ivins of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Andrew Shepherd, a professor at the University of Leeds, led the massive project and coordinated the dozens of scientists involved.
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