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Antarctica is losing ice 6 times faster today than in 1980s
| the new study found. In the 1980s, it was losing 44 billion tons (40 billion metric tons) a year.
The recent melting rate is 15 percent higher than what a study found last year.
Eric Rignot, a University of California, Irvine, ice scientist, was the lead author on the new study in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He said the big difference is that his satellite-based study found East Antarctica, which used to be considered stable,
| is losing 56 billion tons (51 billion metric tons) of ice a year. Last year’s study, which took several teams’ work into consideration, found little to no loss in East Antarctica recently and gains in the past.
Melting in West Antarctica and the Antarctica Peninsula account for about four-fifths of the ice loss. East Antarctica’s melting “increases the risk of multiple meter (more than 10 feet) sea level rise over the next century or so,” Rignot said.
| Richard Alley, a Pennsylvania State University scientist not involved in Rignot’s study, called it “really good science.”
https://apnews.com/587a3e77fa7a4da8906ab417b7a71338
| It's the emus.
The emus won the Emu War against Australia in December 10, 1932. In 1933, the British gave the emus a third part of Antartica.
| Trump keeps getting sick burns that's why
| >ice scientist
sounds like a fucking cool title
| Why should I give a fuck?
| Maybe if recycle harder it'll make the ice grow back!
| We should throw tons of salt in one of the biggest reserves of fresh water in the world. Salt keeps ice from melting.
| We need to build that Panchaea thing from Deus Ex
| >>522620
At least she's more engaged with the issue than everyone who blindly accepts the narative of "we're destroying the entire planet and the only solution is to revert the first world to stone-age tech levels." Also note how many of the people pushing that narative are rich and influential, yet still fly around in private jets or just buy "carbon offsets" instead of actually reducing emissions or actually working to make renewable power cheaper and more reliable for the masses
| >>523037
>rich and influential
>working
Here is the problem: beeing rich and influential is rarely the result of work (in an economical sense)
>to make renewable power cheaper and more reliable for the masses
Why should the rich minority care about the stupid working masses? Thanks to advancing technology and automation the rich become more and more independent from them. The only thing left to do by the poor for the rich is killing each other. Problem solved. See ww3 thread.
| >>523037
>Here is the problem: beeing rich and influential is rarely the result of work (in an economical sense)
Correction: Actually being rich and influential is the result of work. But not by those who are rich and influential.
If you once obtained capital (which mostly happens by underhand means or by heritage) than you let people work for you. End of story.
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| Antarctica is melting more than six times faster than it did in the 1980s, a new study shows.
Scientists used aerial photographs, satellite measurements and computer models to track how fast the southern-most continent has been melting since 1979 in 176 individual basins. They found the ice loss to be accelerating dramatically — a key indicator of human-caused climate change.
Since 2009, Antarctica has lost almost 278 billion tons (252 billion metric tons) of ice per year,