PARIS (AFP) – Scientists unveiled Sunday the first direct evidence that massive floods deep below Antarctica's ice cover are accelerating the flow of glaciers into the sea.
NVDL: I believe we all know intuitively how we are living, and what we are doing, is unsustainable. We nevert absolutely needed scientific proof to know this to be true. But now we have it.. I wonder how mad and dysfunctional human beings are, if, given scientific consensus (proof) we will still continue to operate in the vain, addicted, dependence-based hope that somehow 'everything will be okay'. Will you change?
Two things you can start doing immediately are:
1) consuming less meat
2) driving less
You might also want to consider not having children, as the human population level is already a burdensome load on this planet. In other words, getting married and having children ought not to be a 'given'.
Two forces -- both driven by global warming -- cause sea levels to rise. One is thermal expansion of sea water.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned last year that thermal expansion will push sea levels up 18 to 59 centimetres (7.2 to 23.2 inches) by 2100, enough to wipe out several small island nations and severely disrupt low-lying mega deltas in Asia and Africa.
The ice sheet that sits atop Greenland, for example, contains enough water to raise world ocean levels by seven metres (23 feet).
Even the gloomiest global warming predictions do not include such a scenario.
But recent studies suggest that runoff from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets could drive sea levels higher than once thought, one reason the IPCC decided to remove the upward bracket from its forecast.
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