Monday, June 25, 2012

"I'm melting, I'm melting."

Thanks to technology and our friends the seals, we find Antarctic ice shelves are stable.
Normally, getting sea temperature readings along the shelf in winter would be dangerous if not impossible due to shifting pack ice - but the seals were perfectly at home among the grinding floes.
Overall, according to the team, their field data shows "steady state mass balance" on the eastern Antarctic coasts - ie, that no ice is being lost from the massive shelves there. The research is published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Global warming?
Never mind.

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