Glaciers are melting almost everywhere in the world due to global warming, the study did not find. In West Antarctica, melt rates three times in the last decade, according to a study published in December 2014 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The loss of ice in Greenland to five times faster than in the early 1990s, scientists reported in November 2012 in the journal Science.
The researchers said they plan to follow-up studies to determine whether the predicted ice carbon to be a threat or a nuisance ocean ecosystems.
"This can change the entire food chain. We do not know how different ecological systems will respond to a new stream of carbon," said study co-author Robert Spencer, assistant professor of Oceanology, University of Florida, in a statement.
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Gurber
One of many soundings of the Klaxon of Doom from the Climate Change Charlatans and many more to come this year before the COP21 Pairs Party later this year.
Pakalolo
As the earth's ice melts it adsorbs about 80 times the heat required to raise the same volume of water 1 degree C. Earth's ice acts as a vast heat sink. Sure hope the models account for it.
Frank Walker
Anytime an unusual large-scale change happens to the environment, to my mind that constitutes a menace. The animals and plants (including us) have evolved to be adapted to the current conditions, so a sudden large change is disruptive and probably injurious.
