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Climate Home: Antarctica, the planet’s largest desert, is home to 90% of the world’s ice – enough to raise global sea levels by at least 60 metres. So what happens to its ice and snow is a matter of serious concern to all of us.
One group has just predicted that, by 2050, the rate at which the ice shelves melt will double. Another reports that powerful winds are not just shifting Antarctica’s snow, but are also blowing 80 billion tonnes of it away, into the sea or the atmosphere.
Both cases exemplify the......
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Rate of Antarctic ice melt to double by 2050 – study
Posted by Climate Home: Tim Radford on October 14th, 2015
Posted in Water Conservation