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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (5050)	5/22/2005 8:20:48 PM
From: Jagfan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

East Antarctica puts on weight Mark Peplow Increased snowfall could slow sea-level rise. East Antarctica may be piling on the pounds, but glaciers in the west are accelerating into the ocean. © British Antarctic Survey Increased snowfall over a large area of Antarctica is thickening the ice sheet and slowing the rise in sea level caused by melting ice. A satellite survey shows that between 1992 and 2003, the East Antarctic ice sheet gained about 45 billion tonnes of ice - enough to reduce the oceans' rise by 0.12 millimetres per year. The ice sheets that cover Antarctica's bedrock are several kilometres thick in places, and contain about 90% of the world's ice. But scientists fear that if they melt in substantial quantities, this will swell the oceans and cause devastation on islands and coastal lands. nature.com