Is Antarctica Melting?

By Dr. M, on January 17th, 2010 2 comments   Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Natural Disaster   Antarctica, climate change, global warming, melting  

Hell yes

Graph from NASA: The continent of Antarctica has been losing more than 100 cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) of ice per year since 2002.

2 comments to Is Antarctica Melting?

• Cheryl's Mewsings » Blog Archive » Weight Loss

  January 18, 2010 at 16:28 · Reply

  [...] The data is from NASA (and measured using gravity data, which is rather cool). I found it on Deep Sea News. And that rate of weight loss equates to 24 cubic miles of ice per year. There’s a lot more [...]

• Lars Fischer

  January 18, 2010 at 17:12 · Reply

  Uh, I can’t help noticing that at least according to the Y-axis the antarctic ice shields actually gained mass until about 2006 or 2007. Before that there was only a decrease in growth, not in actual mass.