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Climate Central: The vast ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica have begun melting and sliding into the ocean as heat-trapping greenhouse gases continue to build in the atmosphere. How much and how fast the ice is disappearing, however, has been poorly understood, because the satellites that measure it haven't always agreed. But a report published Thursday in Science has cleared up much of the uncertainty.
A team of no fewer than 47 scientists from 36 laboratories, looking at data from 10 different satellites,......
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Study gives new benchmark for how much ice is melting
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 30th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation