Like virtually everything else glacial province H2O ice obeys the constabulary of gravity. Therefore H2O ice sheets menstruum downhill. They usually produce this real slowly. Unfortunately nosotros don't alive inwards normal times.
Global warming has caused the the oceans to too teach warmer. The warmer body of body of water waters undercut Antarctica's glaciers, causing them to menstruum quicker in addition to quicker. Over 60% of the world's freshwater is locked inwards Antarctica's ice. If it melts nosotros volition run across a global rising inwards sea marker in addition to coastal cities unopen to the basis volition discovery themselves underwater.
The New York Times has created a serial of maps to help explicate how global warming could Pb to the melting of Antarctica's H2O ice sheets in addition to sweat rising sea levels unopen to the world. In Antarctic Dispatches glacier H2O ice menstruum is beautifully illustrated inwards a serial of animated maps. The danger of global rising seas is explained inwards maps showing areas of Antarctica that convey lost x feet or to a greater extent than of H2O ice since 2010.
Part three of Antarctic Dispatches uses a scrolling map to help illustrate the total of H2O locked upwardly inwards Antarctica's H2O ice sheets. The scale of the Ross Ice Shelf is illustrated past times overlaying the road of the New York marathon on pinnacle of satellite imagery of the H2O ice shelf. The Ross Ice Shelf is huge!
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