Antarctic Warming Threatens World's Second Largest Ice Shelf

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By Climate News NetworkMay 22, 2017, 9:11 am259 pts
By Tim Radford German scientists have worked out the process that could destroy an Antarctic ice shelf the size of Iraq. They predict that, in a few decades, the oceanographic machinery that keeps the Ronne-Filchner ice shelf in the Weddell Sea will fail. A warm ocean will begin to eat away at the 450,000…

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