June 18, 2018
Climate change appears to have fallen off the map politically. But it’s still very much happening.
According to this article in the Washington Post, the rate by which Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting continues to increase, and now pours more than 200 billion tons of ice into the ocean annually, raising sea levels a half-millimeter every year. The melt rate has tripled in the past decade.
Antarctica, the planet’s largest ice sheet, lost 219 billion tons of ice annually from 2012 through 2017 — approximately triple the 73 billion-ton melt rate of a decade ago, the scientists concluded. From 1992 through 1997, Antarctica lost 49 billion tons of ice annually.
Sorry to intrude. You are now welcome to discuss important things like whether the NFL should discipline players who kneel during the national anthem.