Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Melting in East Antarctica...a new doom signal to coastal cities

East Antarctica has always been considered "melt-proof" for many centuries. No longer so. From the Washington Post, March 16, 2015, see this blog post by Chris Mooney:

The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse.

 

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GREENLAND - Will probably be the focus of near term sea level rise

Greenland is almost all covered by a very thick glacial ice cap. If all of Greenland's ice either melted or slid into the oceans, sea le...