‘An Indication of What’s Coming’: Melting at North and South Poles Worse Than Previously Thought

While NOAA’s annual report shows the Arctic has lost 95 percent of its oldest, thickest ice, NASA researchers have observed ice retreat in East Antarctica—a region they’d believed was stable

 

New data shows that over the past three decades, the Arctic has lost 95 percent of its oldest, thickest ice. (Photo: Christopher Michel/Flickr/cc)

As the Trump administration tries to undermine the COP 24 climate talks in Poland, new U.S. government data shows that ice melt at both of the planet’s poles—driven by rising air and ocean temperatures resulting from human-caused global warming—is worse than previously thought.

LINK: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/11/indication-whats-coming-melting-north-and-south-poles-worse-previously-thought