Hey!!! But what about that Solange Knowles/Jay Z elevator fight? A large section of the mighty West Antarctica ice sheet has begun falling apart and its continued melting now appears to be unstoppable, two groups of scientists reported on Monday... This is really happening, Thomas P. Wagner, who runs NASA’s programs on polar ice and helped oversee some of the research, said in an interview. There’s nothing to stop it now. But you are still limited by the physics of how fast the ice can flow.... ...He added that while a large rise of the sea may now be inevitable from West Antarctica, continued release of greenhouse gases will almost certainly make the situation worse. The heat-trapping gases could destabilize other parts of Antarctica as well as the Greenland ice sheet, potentially causing enough sea-level rise that many of the world’s coastal cities would eventually have to be abandoned. If we have indeed lit the fuse on West Antarctica, it’s very hard to imagine putting the fuse out, Dr. Alley said. But there’s a bunch more fuses, and there’s a bunch more matches, and we have a decision now: Do we light those?”
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 16:04:30 +0000