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Cause Of Antarctic Ice Melt

The frozen Antarctic continent holds about 90% of the world’s total water. Researchers have found that global warming resulted in melting of the ice in Antarctica exceeding their earlier expectation. This has caused a sudden rise in the sea levels all around the globe.

It has been found that the ice caps of Antarctica which are rapidly melting have contributed to at least a 15 percent increase in the sea levels. In the last 50 years, about 13,000 sq km of ice in the Antarctic Peninsula has disappeared. The experts are of the opinion that if the rate of global warming is not reduced, the continuous rise of sea levels cannot be stopped which will result in long term negative consequence all over the world. 

Major regions covered with ice in Antarctica have melted during the last 10 years. Some of them include Wilkins ice shelf, Larsen A and B ice shelf. It has been said that if the West Antarctic ice sheet collapses at the ongoing rate, then it would have huge impact on the planet’s rotation and the Northern Hemisphere. The northern hemisphere can have large areas of water. In addition, the South and North poles would shift to about half a kilometer. This would cause an increase of 5m at the global level. 

Due to the melting of ice in the Antarctic peninsula, the glaciers have started moving towards the oceans. Scientific findings show that the water from the glaciers has flown into the ocean 6 times more rapidly than that has been predicted before. The sea water in western Antarctica has become warmer due to the swiftly erosion of the ice from underneath due to the increase in the average temperature all around the world.

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