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Selasa, 24 Mei 2011

Melting of the ice in the polar north & south

Global warming has a direct effect of the continuous melting of ice in the Arctic north and south poles. Melting ice in Greenland has reached nearly 19 million tons! And the amount of ice in the Arctic in the summer of 2007, only half or four years ago! The ice is melting much faster than ever before moving predictive models created by scientists. Some early predictions, which had run EstimatedRunTime polar ice caps will disappear by the year 2040 and the 2100th But by 2007, the annual Ice data obtained is a way to reconsider the model predictions and earlier.
Scientists are important factors to recognize that it is not-an-existing prediction models adopted. The latest figures show that the ice, as well as a more accurate predictive models, Dr. H. J. Zwally, a NASA climate expert, that the new estimate, which is shocking: almost all the polar ice cap will disappear in the years between 2008 - 2012!

Recently, a natural phenomenon, shows how serious this disease. March 6, 2008, the ice cap covering an area of ​​414 square kilometers (almost 1.5 times the size of Surabaya) in Antarctica collapsed.
Accor female researchers, a large plate-shaped permanent floating ice 1.609 km south of South America, South Antarctic Peninsula. In fact, chunks of ice is likely that since 1500 years ago. "This is a result of global warming," said lead researcher Ted Scambos, NSIDC. Accor wife for him, sheets of ice called the Wilkins ice shelf collapse is very rare. Now, after the split, the pieces of ice are 12,950 square miles, 5.6 km, and the adjacent piece of ice, and connects the two islands. "Soon, this will be the last piece of ice could disappear. And half of the total area of ​​the ice disappears within a few years," said Scambos.
"Several recent events are the trigger points is the change in the system," said Sarah Das, a researcher at the Institute of Marine Wood's Hole. Changes in Antarctica is very complicated and more isolated from all over the world.
Antarctica Antarctica is the continent with ice-capped mountains and the lake is surrounded by the ocean. This continent is much colder than the Arctic ice melts, it is very rare, even coating that never melts in history. The average temperature is -49 degrees Celsius, but never reached the "almost minus 90 degrees Celsius in July 1983rd No wonder if the phenomenon of melting ice on the continent, that it" almost 90 percent of the ice of the world to serious attention from researchers.

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