Rain speeds Antarctic Peninsula glacier melt
SHELDON GLACIER, Antarctica (Reuters) More rain on the Antarctic Peninsula is speeding a melt of glaciers such as the Sheldon, which has retreated 2 km (1.2 miles) in 20 years and is nudging up world sea levels, a leading expert said.
A mountain is reflected in a bay canadian goose jacket that used to be covered by the Sheldon glacier on the Antarctic peninsula, January 14, 2009. The glacier has shrunk by about 2 km since 1989, probably because of global warming. Picture taken January 14, 2009. REUTERS/Alister Doyle
is very corrosive to glaciers and at least in part the reason this canada goose uk black friday glacier is retreating, David Vaughan, a British Antarctic Survey uk canada goose glaciologist, said on an inflatable Canada Goose Outlet speedboat in a bay that had been blanketed by ice canada goose clearance sale for thousands of years.
glacier has retreated since 1989 and left this open water. That Canada Goose Jackets the same pattern for 87 percent of 400 glaciers along the Antarctic Peninsula, he told Reuters.
The cheap Canada Goose ice buy canada goose jacket cracks and growls as the 70 meter high (230 feet) ice cliffs at the front of the Sheldon glacier slide downhill, some of the ice a bluish Canada Goose Parka white.
Temperatures were above freezing with clear skies on Friday and Thursday. Rain spattered the glacier on Wednesday and has fallen several times this month.
David Vaughan, a leading glaciologist canada goose uk outlet with the British canada goose store Antarctic Survey, looks out at the edge of the Sheldon glacier on canada goose black friday sale the Antarctic Peninsula January Canada Goose Coats On Sale 15, 2009. He is in canada goose coats on sale a place that was smothered by ice before the glacier started to retreat, probably because of global warming, in the last 1980s. Picture taken January 15, 2009. REUTERS/Stuart McDill
Vaughan said rain was becoming canada goose more frequent in summertime on the peninsula, the northernmost part of Antarctica that sticks canada goose coats up toward South America. The peninsula is warming buy canada goose jacket cheap faster than canada goose factory sale anywhere else in the southern hemisphere.
SEA LEVEL RISE And the thaw of Sheldon, near the British Rothera reseach station uk canada goose outlet and other peninsula glaciers, is part of a wider melt adding to world sea levels.
doesn add up to much on its own but by the time we added Patagonia, Alaska, all those Canada Goose Online other areas where glaciers are receding, we have 1 millimeter (0.04 inch) at least (a year) of sea level rise around the globe, Vaughan said.
David Vaughan, a leading glaciologist with the British Antarctic Survey, looks out through rain at the Sheldon glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula January 14, 2009. He is in a place that was smothered by ice before the glacier started to retreat, probably because of global warming, in Canada Goose online the last 1980s. Rain is accelerating the thaw. Picture taken January 14, 2009. REUTERS/Alister Doyle
Adding in other factors including that water expands as it warms up, ocean levels are rising 3 mm a year or 30 cm (11.8 inches) a century. And the rate is cheap canada goose uk accelerating after a gain of 17 cm in the 20th century. Climate Panel, said there were worrying signs that vast glaciers to the south were also starting to spill more water into the sea.
concern is. that the much bigger glaciers (further south) are going to start doing the same thing, he said. The large Pine Island glacier about Canada Goose sale 500 km to the south has also accelerated.
The peninsula covers a fraction of Antarctica, a frozen continent bigger canada goose uk shop than the United States that contains most of linked site canada goose outlet https://www.canadagooseonlineshop.co.uk the world fresh water.
Average temperatures on the peninsula have risen by up to 3 Celsius (5.4 F) canada goose clearance in the past 50 years against a world average of 0.7 Celsius in the past century.