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Antarctica could melt ‘irreversibly’ due to climate change, study warns – Livescience.com
The change will take thousands of years, but we only have a century to stop it.
Antarctica
contains more than half of the world’s freshwater in its sprawling, frozen ice sheet, but humanity’s decisions over the next century could send that water irreversibly into the sea.
If global warming
is allowed to continue unchecked, Antarctica will soon pass a “point of no return” that could reduce the continent to a barren, ice-free mass for the first time in more than 30 million years, according to a new study published Sep. 23 in the journalNature
.
“Antarctica is basical…
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