This 10000 year old ice shelf will be gone in a couple of years.
“This study of the Antarctic Peninsula glaciers provides insights about how ice shelves farther south, which hold much more land ice, will react to a warming climate,” said JPL glaciologist Eric Rignot, a coauthor of the paper.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-study-shows-antarctica-s-
larsen-b-ice-shelf-nearing-its-final-act
This 10000 year old ice shelf will be gone in a couple of years.
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Change is the only constant…
The rate of change is changing too…
Instead we have comments whining about science.
AFAIK, Antarctic ice extent is breaking records. To the point where servicing the Australian base is extremely hard as no ice breaker can reach it.
Honestly – it’s odd, when one considers it, that we should think this planet is in some kind of stasis that needs to be maintained.
And why do we see ourselves (mankind) as outside of the planet instead of as a part. When any other animal creates things outside of themselves, we still think of those things as being “natural,” yet we always seem to denigrate what humans make and call it “artificial” instead of “natural.” It’s kinda odd, no? Just a question I’m always asking myself…
Jarto Tarpio The Antarctica is quite large, you know – with different oceans on different sides. Also – these are two different types of ice. The one you are referring to, is sea ice. This article is about one of the ice shelves – i.e. a product of inland glaciers.
extinction is natural? “..seeking protection for the passenger pigeon ..Report ..needs no protection. Wonderfully prolific, having the vast forests ..here today and elsewhere tomorrow, and no ordinary destruction can lessen them, or be missed from the myriads that are yearly produced..”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
Extinction is indeed the rule, not the exception – but I’d prefer to postpone it for… let’s say – a few hundred thousand years?
Lars Fosdal I have asked many people this but never got a good answer: If it’s so cold at Antarctic, that sea ice extent grows there year after year, what could melt ice further south, where it’s even colder? There’s only one rational explanation for that and it isn’t man made.