Re: Warmer Oceans Melting Antarctica
Posted by cypresstx on 4/26/2012, 11:29 am
this is a fantastic video from NOVA;    Extreme Ice

"If all of Greenland and Antarctica were to melt, the oceans would rise 200 feet, but, over geologic time, these ancient bulwarks of ice have withstood many bouts with climate warming.

Until a few years ago, scientists thought the ice sheets were simply too big and too dense to be an immediate risk, but the latest evidence is making them rethink.

The first wake-up call came from the West Antarctic Peninsula. In the summer of 2002, a NASA satellite photographed a Rhode-Island-sized slab of ice, called Larsen B, as it sheared off the ice shelf. Other collapses followed, turning the assumption that it would take thousands of years for the big ice sheets to melt on its head."  



more with James Balog's work:  http://www.extremeicesurvey.org

documentary coming out this fall:  http://chasingice.com/

a bit of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuso69m7qbA

Balog, TED Talk:  http://nhne-pulse.org/videos/videos-ted-james-balog-time-lapse-proof-of-extreme-ice-loss/

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