Antarctic ice sheet thinning. Are you ready for an ocean rise?

Australia
March 29, 2007 9:14am CST
A PIECE of the Antarctic ice sheet the size of Texas is thinning, possibly due to global warming, and could cause the world's oceans to rise significantly, polar ice experts say. They said "surprisingly rapid changes" were occurring in Antarctica's Amundsen Sea Embayment, which faces the southern Pacific Ocean, but that more study was needed to know how fast it was melting and how much it could cause the sea level to rise. The warning came in a joint statement issued at the end of a conference of US and European polar ice experts at the University of Texas in Austin. The scientists blamed the melting ice on changing winds around Antarctica that they said were causing warmer waters to flow beneath ice shelves. The wind change appeared to be the result of several factors, including global warming, ozone depletion in the atmosphere and natural variability.
2 responses
kathy77
@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
29 Mar 07
Oh yes I seen some of this on the television recently it is dreadful the amount of ice that is melting and it is due to global warming, I think that when this happens we shall lose a lot of our islands as we know them as these ice sheet will make the oceans rise to far and whipe them out completely.
teknika_net
@teknika_net (22)
• Indonesia
29 Mar 07
i don`t think is better. much discuss about this issue. but nothing betwen us make a best solution. a global warming make disaster in half of the world. lake tsunami Aceh, japan, thailand and another country. or the katrina disaster. so we can hoped with the profesionalis scienc to born the best solution, and be willing all of us, be patience , and pray to our god.