Dramatic development
A new study shows that it is difficult to stop the melting of ice in the far south of the continent even if the 1.5 degree target is reached.
FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of the 200-foot (60-meter) front of the Getz Ice Shelf with crevasses, in Antarctica, in this published 2016 photo. NASA/Handout via Reuters This image was provided by a third party . Mandatory credit/file photo
Regardless of the climate scenario used, the ice shelf that forms the center of Antarctica is disappearing at a significant rate. The researchers came to this conclusion British Antarctic Survey, UK polar research programme. Even if the 1.5 degree target is reached, the ice shelf in West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea could melt completely. Given its essential role in the restricted ice of West Antarctica, it could also be lost more rapidly, as shown by A study published in the journal “Nature Climate Change”. He appears.
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