World's biggest ice sheet stable


	World's biggest ice sheet stable

amgumen

8-25-2007 11:24 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/51d4cc64-01e7-4caa-b197-e197280c53ac/38B322E1-E7CA-49FC-81B1-67E2BD7E073A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/27/asia/AS-GEN-Antarctica-Ice-Sheet.php" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/27/asia/AS-GEN-Antarctica-Ice-Sheet.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.iht.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/27/asia/AS-GEN-Antarctica-Ice-Sheet.php">An ice sheet in Antarctica that is the world's largest — with enough water to raise global sea levels by 60 meters (200 feet) — is relatively stable and poses no immediate threat to ocean levels, according to new research.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/27/asia/AS-GEN-Antarctica-Ice-Sheet.php">The air over the East Antarctic ice sheet, an ice mass more than 3,000 kilometers (1,875 miles) across and up to four kilometers (2.5 miles) thick centered on the South Pole, will remain cold enough to prevent significant melting in the near future</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/27/asia/AS-GEN-Antarctica-Ice-Sheet.php">Rising sea levels in the short term will instead be mostly caused by the melting of valley glaciers, thermal expansion of the oceans, and from the retreat of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/27/asia/AS-GEN-Antarctica-Ice-Sheet.php">The researchers found that from 13,000 to 7,000 years ago, when sea levels rose by over 100 meters (330 feet), the East Antarctic ice sheet thinned by 200 meters (660 feet) to 350 meters (1,150 feet).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/27/asia/AS-GEN-Antarctica-Ice-Sheet.php">it is likely to grow in the next 100 years" as the climate warms and air moisture rises, enabling more snow, Lawson said</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/38B322E1-E7CA-49FC-81B1-67E2BD7E073A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>