New Victim of Climate Change Revealed: East Antarctic Ice

[Judi Lynn]

Published on Thursday, August 29, 2013 by Common Dreams

New Victim of Climate Change Revealed: East Antarctic Ice

Study: 'Widespread, synchronous changes' in world's biggest ice sheet could pose threat to global sea levels

- Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A new study reveals that the world's largest ice sheet, previously thought to be at little risk from climate change, has undergone rapid changes in the past five decades, signaling a potential threat to global sea levels.

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels over 50 meters.

Using declassified spy satellite data from 1963 to 2012, researchers from the University of Durham looked at 175 glaciers along the ocean margins of the ice sheet and found "widespread and synchronous changes" consistent with climate change.

"We've shown for the first time that these glaciers are in concert with climate," Chris Stokes, a professor of geography at Durham University and an lead researcher of the paper, told LiveScience.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/29-5

[hatrack]

1. "Previously thought to be at little risk" . . "rapid changes" . . "consistent with climate change"

Oops. Our bad.

[hatrack]

2. Hello! Anybody home?

Gaia just called in on the bone-phone, y'all . . . .

[Nihil]

3. You know all the reassurances we've read ...

... about how the melting of the Greenland ice and the melting of the WAIS
"aren't that big a deal as at least the EAIS is stable" (and even growing
according to some) ....?

Make it as soon as possible so that the people who have caused the
worst damage are still alive (albeit to be lynched) when the true impact
hits home.

[CRH]

4. Yeah Gaia has different schedules than the IPCC, ...

Just another ahead of schedule symptom of the global heating phenomenon.

Too bad nobody can call Ms. Gaia and ask her to hold off until humans get their shit together.