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posted by janrinok on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the where-did-you-last-have-it? dept.

Satellites monitoring the state of the White Continent indicate some 200 billion tonnes a year are now being lost to the ocean as a result of melting.

This is pushing up global sea levels by 0.6mm annually - a three-fold increase since 2012 when the last such assessment was undertaken.

Scientists report the new numbers in the journal Nature.

Governments will need to take account of the information and its accelerating trend as they plan future defences to protect low-lying coastal communities.

The researchers say the losses are occurring predominantly in the West of the continent, where warm waters are getting under and melting the fronts of glaciers that terminate in the ocean.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44470208

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0179-y

See also: Ars Technica, Phys Org and University of Leeds.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @03:20AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @03:20AM (#693314)

    we are in a good position in that this whole thing can be blamed on a single individual. At least what I have gathered from reading the internet.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @04:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @04:27AM (#694141)

    Al Gore?