Giant Antarctic glaciers are melting faster and faster

The melting of the Pine Iceland Glacier is no longer to stop. The consequences for the rise of the oceans can be enormous.

International scientists from the University of Grenoble in France expect the shrinking Pine Iceland Glacier sea levels could rise by up to leave an inch in twenty years. The "acceptance" of the glacier was "irreversible".

The glacier is located in the west of the Antarctic. Since the beginning of the millennium, he had become situated around ten kilometers shorter, write the researchers from the Institute of glaciology and geophysics.

In recent decades, the melt was accelerated. On average, are 20 billion tons of ice melted in the years 1992 to 2011 per year. Overall, the Western Antarctic ice sheet had thus taken up today by about 20 percent.

It must be expected that the annual loss anwachse up to 100 billion tons, it is said in the study. The amount corresponds, according to the calculations an average increase in sea level by each 3.5 to 10 millimeters in the next 20 years.

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