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The author looks with alarm at trends for Arctic warming, seeing the ice getting thinner and thinner every year and contributing to the rise in sea levels.
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"New Study Shows Global Warming Is Rapidly Melting Ice at Both Poles" — Phil Plait — Bad Astronomy — November 30, 2012
A new international study—done by 47 experts using data from multiple satellites and aircraft—shows that the Earth is losing ice at an ever-increasing rate from both poles. We’ve known for years that the Arctic has been suffering massive ice loss, with the record low broken more than once in recent years. What’s devastating about this new report is that it shows unequivocally and quantitatively that the Antarctic is also losing land ice, with the critical West Antarctica ice sheet losing on average 65 billion tons of ice every year.
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