Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica Melting 3 Times Faster

NASA has recently revealed its findings about the melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica that was three times faster than previously anticipated. Quoted from Physorg site, where the research using satellite imagery found that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have been losing mass as much as 475 gigatons each year in which the volume will result in world sea levels rise an average of 1.3 millimeters / year. "sea level rise is more dominated by a layer of ice over the glacier is not too surprising, since winning the ice layer of ice that contain more" said Eric Rignot, a joint research between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with the University of California. But he added that if this is allowed to continue to occur then the sea levels will rise significantly from that which had been predicted earlier by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at 2017.