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NASA: 10,000-Year-Old Ice Shelf in Antarctica Will Soon Be Completely Gone
Earth’s polar regions are in the midst of a stunning transformation. As global warming accelerates, evidence of change is perhaps most obvious in our planet’s ice. More than a decade ago, scientists watched in awe as Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf shattered almost completely in just six weeks. No one had ever seen such a large mass of ice vanish so quickly.
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"Rignot is most concerned about the Ross Ice Shelf and the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica’s largest, both of which are bigger than California and more than a thousand feet thick. Though these ice shelves are thought to be stable for now, a fact sheet from the U.S. Geological Survey says that the glaciers kept in check by the Ross and Filchner-Ronne could create a “rapid rise” in global sea levels of more than 30 feet, enough to flood about a quarter of the U.S. population." .............Alarmism at it's finest.