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Melting Antartica Ice

By Editor | January 30, 2008

If you think that the ice in the Antartica will be there for a long time, think again. According to a recent environmental report in the Christian Science Monitor, the ice floating in the waters of the Antartica are definitely turning thin. This might sound not like much, but when you realize that the ice in the Antartica currently slows the speed with which the continent’s inland glaciers are sliding into the sea.

Melting Antartica, artic icebergsIf those ice shelves go, the rate of glacier advance would increase immensely and this will affect world environment greatly. Currently the according to environment monitoring agencies the Antartic ice disappearance is responsible for about 10 percent of the annual 1.8mm rise in the world’s ocean water levels.

If the ice ever disappear, this could mean as much as one-metre rise in water levels around the globe, and this environmental change would cause a lot of complications for us humans. The environmental impact of this magnitude could mean mass human migration, and the way we harvest food. The environmental ripples of this will be felt for decades ahead.

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