Tag: Retreating

Glaciologist Says New Melting Study ‘Frankly Scary. Even to Me.’

Satellite imagery shows the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica on February 21, 2000. The ice shelf's collapse in 2002 was hastened by fossil fuel-driven global warming.

“Ice sheets are retreating fast today,” said one expert. “But we see traces in the seafloor that the retreat could go faster, way faster, and this is a reminder that we have not seen everything yet.”

Source: Glaciologist Says New Melting Study ‘Frankly Scary. Even to Me.’