Antarctic ice loss from glaciers Unstoppable

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Antarctic ice loss from glaciers Unstoppable

Contained in the glacier ice in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica is enough to raise global sea level more than one meter .


A large number of the West Antarctic ice sheet is melting rapidly , and looks in a state which can not be returned for a lowered speed. The assessment , from a new study from researchers at NASA and the University of California , Irvine , found that nothing can stop the glaciers in the area to melt .

Glaciologist and lead author of the study , Eric Rignot , said on Monday ( 12/5 ) that the disbursement was a major contributor to sea level rise in the coming decades and centuries .

" We and many other colleagues have looked extensively in parts of the world over the last two decades , with satellites , aircraft , ships and land surveying . We have learned a lot of direct observation and independent of this part of the world to conclude that the melting of ice in the sector can not be stopped , "said Rignot .

Glaciers in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea level rise of more than one meter , and melting faster than predicted by most scientists . Glaciers to sea ice releases each year the size of the Greenland ice sheet .

The report , which appears in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , concluded : " The fact that deterioration occurs simultaneously in the major sectors showed it triggered by a common cause , such as an increase in the amount of heat in the ocean under sections floated on the glacier . At this point , the end of the sector seems to be unavoidable . "

The researchers said that while CO2 emissions can slow the loss of glaciers , they emphasize that it can not be dibalikkan.VOA