Global warming causing 'irreversible' mass melting in Antarctica - scientist

Global warming causing 'irreversible' mass melting in Antarctica - scientist..


Global warming was leading to an "irreversible" mass melting of the Antarctic ice and purging carbon from the atmosphere was the only solution to slow the process, an Australian climate scientist told Reuters on Wednesday.

Recent human activity has intensified global warming, which could result in a mass melting of Antarctica, said Zoe Thomas, a research fellow at the University of New South Wales who was part of an international team of scientists that recently published a paper on Antarctic ice melting.

The study showed the world could lose most of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which rests on the seabed and is fringed by floating ice, in a warmer world.

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Sad fact is Mr scientist,that we can not ever get to tropical climates in the Northern Hemispheres,you see there comes a point of no return when we head back to a full blown Ice Age we know what the trigger is when there is enough ice melt of fresh water that dilutes the sea salt water enough to stop the North Atlantic conveyor belt part of a global ocean conveyor belt now with the state of the world weather today we know it has slowed down and is getting near to stopping..if some so called Mr scientist could measure how much fresh water is needed to stop global ocean conveyor belt then we would find the exact date of the next full blown ice age...