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Global Warming Update: Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapsing
Submitted by SteveKier on March 26, 2008 - 12:21pm.
...courtesy of Kevin Drum at Political Animal:
CLIMATE CHANGE UPDATE
The Wilkins ice shelf is collapsing:
A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday.
....British Antarctic Survey scientist David Vaughan attributed the melting to rising sea temperature due to global warming.
....Vaughan had predicted the Wilkins shelf would collapse about 15 years from now.
All the usual caveats apply. However, this is one more data point suggesting that global warming may be happening faster than our current models predict, not slower.