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To: Sdgla who wrote (864281)6/10/2015 6:57:36 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1580216
 
Uh, the melting of the ice is not cyclical, though. All three major ice sheets in Antarctica are unstable now. That means even if temperatures stabilize or even return to previous levels, they will continue to discharge ice until they reach an equilibrium point. Now this is not unprecedented, Antarctica has experienced at least 8 times when the ice sheets went unstable in the past 20,000 years. One, about 14,500 years ago, resulted in a sea level rise of about 2 meters in less than a century.

Why not Google Pine Island Glacier? I suspect your lack of critical reasoning skills will mean you won't process the information, but still...