2009Nov22: East Antarctica has been losing 57 billion tons of ice mass per year for the last three years, according to data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) mission. The study, which was led by Jianli Chen from the Centre for Space Research at the University of Texas in Austin, appears in the journal Nature Geoscience (BBC).
Reference: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8371773.stm
Image Description: Antarctic Ice Sheet. Credit: Ben Holt Sr., GRACE team, DLR, NASA. Image Location: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/gallery/other/misc/iceberg.html Image Permission: This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA.
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How soon will it be that there is no ice anymore on Antartica? How much more do we have to mess up this world before we put a stop to this? It is sad to read that not enough people are taking the climate change a bit more serious. It will not be long until we don’t have a climate to take serious anymore…