Scientists have documented a massive melt event on the surface of Antarctica

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Source: By Chris Mooney, WA Post

Scientists have documented a recent, massive melt event on the surface of highly vulnerable West Antarctica that, they fear, could be a harbinger of future events as the planet continues to warm.

In the Antarctic summer of 2016, the surface of the Ross Ice Shelf, the largest floating ice platform on Earth, developed a sheet of meltwater that lasted for as long as 15 days in some places. The total area affected by melt was 300,000 square miles, or larger than the state of Texas, the scientists report.

That’s bad news because surface melting could work hand in hand with an already documented trend of ocean-driven melting to compromise West Antarctica, which contains over 10 feet of potential sea level rise.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/15/scientists-just-documented-a-massive-melt-event-on-the-surface-of-antarctica/

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2. Forget the Mexican wall

Should build giant walls on our coasts instead!

Seriously though, my biggest fear is that efforts like Paris are too little to late. I don't like being doom and gloom, but that increasingly tends to be my view.

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3. Surprise, surprise, surprise!

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4. Well, a bright spot is that

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7. And Mar-a-Lago will be under water

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8. There were patches of surface water there in 1970.

I was in a vehicle that slowly drove through one.

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9. As long as science-hating anti-intellectuals keep getting voted in...