Research: Tropics May Speed Glacial Melt

University of Washington has conducted a research on glaciers melting speed in Antarctica. The research included two two of the five largest glaciers in Antarctica.

Research concludes that they are melting and that gains speed draining ice faster and contributing to sea level rise. This melting down could lead to global sea level rise of as much as six feet, though it would take few centuries.

Eric Steig, University of Washington professor of Earth and space sciences says “This part of Antarctica is affected by what’s happening on the rest of the planet, in particular the tropical Pacific.”

NASA scientists recently documented that a section of the Pine Island Glacier the size of New York City had begun breaking off into a huge iceberg.

Last few decades have been exceptionally warm in tropics, attributed mainly to human activities, unusual conditions in Antarctica are also now been attributed to those causes.