liab: letters in a bottle: Antarctic Ice shelf crumbling and on the verge of collapse!

Posted by:neokx87 1520 days ago • Discuss • http://nmod.blogspot.com

David Vaughan of the BAS had predicted in 1993 that the northern part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf was likely to be lost within 30 years if warming on the Peninsula continued at the same rate.

"Wilkins is the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula yet to be threatened," he said. "I didn't expect to see things happen this quickly. The ice shelf is hanging by a thread — we'll know in the next few days and weeks what its fate will be."

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