ApocaDocs: The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse.

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Posted Fri Mar 20 2015: from Washington Post:


	The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse. http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1426892852 A hundred years from now, humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learned that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet of West Antarctica, and thus set in motion more than 10 feet of sea level rise. Meanwhile, 2015 could be the year of the double whammy -- when we learned the same about one gigantic glacier of East Antarctica, which could set in motion roughly the same amount all over again. Northern Hemisphere residents and Americans in particular should take note -- when the bottom of the world loses vast amounts of ice, those of us living closer to its top get more sea level rise than the rest of the planet, thanks to the law of gravity.

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