Significant facts about global warming and initiatives on how to address this global threat have spread far and wide. However, this detrimental condition still lingers and continues to alarm us. We need to do more to propel earth initiatives.
An article from AFP titled “Floods Under Antarctic Ice Speed Glaciers Into Sea: Study” features a study conducted by scientists showing that enormous floods under Antarctica’s ice sheets hasten the flow of glaciers. The melting of these glaciers into the sea will result to rising sea levels and the real culprit that drives this alarming phenomenon is global warming. Each one should do his part in fighting climate change; or else we would be seeing more and more of its destruction.
PARIS (AFP) – Scientists unveiled Sunday the first direct evidence that massive floods deep below Antarctica’s ice cover are accelerating the flow of glaciers into the sea.
How quickly these huge bodies of ice slide off the Antarctic and Greenland land masses into the ocean help determine the speed at which sea levels rise.
The stakes are enormous: an increase measured in tens of centimetres (inches) could wreak havoc for hundreds of millions of people living in low-lying deltas and island nations around the world.
Researchers discovered only recently that inaccessible subglacial lakes in Antarctica periodically shed huge quantities of water.
SOURCE: Floods under Antarctic ice speed glaciers into sea: study.
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