When scientists tagged a curious seal, he led them to signs of a potential climate disaster

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How a seal and a robot helped uncover a potential climate change disaster

point of them all, about the depth of two Grand Canyons, or two miles below sea level. If water, rather than ice, were to someday fill this valley, Denman Glacier could raise global sea levels by nearly 5 feet.something else: Denman was reeling. The region of its “grounding line,” where the glacier touches both the seafloor and the ocean, had retreated backward more than three miles toward the center of Antarctica since 1996, bringing the sea to edge of the newly discovered canyon.

The robot was a little more thorough in its explorations than the seal. It also measured water that was even warmer at very, very close to zero degrees Celsius. Thanks to these measurements, the scientists were able to determine just how much of this warm water is flowing toward Denman Glacier. It was massive.There are “about eight Mississippi Rivers going into the cavity,” according to Rintoul.

While East Antarctica has so far not been losing much, if any, ice, it has much more to potentially give than any other Antarctic region. Like these West Antarctic glaciers,

 

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Al Gore said there would be no polar bears, 20 years ago. And that the polar ice caps would have melted by now. He's also made $330,000,000 off climate hysteria over the last 25 years. what a country!

A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

Everything is a climate change disaster. Except all of the people who aren't dying. Humans are pretty good at adapting. The media is too--see the history of climate hysteria.

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