Hazard Bells Shrub in Ice
17.08.2009 Radikal
TORONTO - It was announced that the iceuls in Antarctica are four times faster than 10 years ago.
According to the research published in the science magazine "Geophysical Research Letters" of a group of scientists from the University ofLeeds, the most prominent melting is observed in the Pine Island, from the largest in Western Antarctica. This frosted 10 years ago, while studying 16 meters per year, this figure rose up to 90 meters now. [ [Pine Island found the researchers who pointed out that the calul of the ice is the best traced iceul with satellite due to 175 thousand square widths and typical properties of the ice was estimated that the melt will not be destroyed within 100 years of the huge iceberg if this rapid continues.
Scientists have previously predicted this time as 600 years.
Professor Andrew Shepherd from the research team, said the melting of Pine Island iceul, which is the size of the Newfoundland and New Brunswick states of Canada, not only in the region, but in the world, will raise the level of all the seas in the world, "because this frost has ice until the amount of water in the existing seas will increase a layer. This is a sufficient data to understand how big we are facing. (aaa)
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