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Ice melting in the western Antarctic at an 'unstoppable' pace, warn NASA scientists

2014-05-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Ice is melting in the western Antarctic at an "unstoppable" pace, scientists said Monday, warning that the discovery holds major consequences for global sea level rise in the coming decades. The speedy melting means that prior calculations of sea level rise worldwide made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will have to be adjusted upwards, scientists told reporters. "A large sector of the West Antarctic ice sheet has gone into a state of irreversible retreat. It has passed the...

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