Antarctic Glaciers Melting Faster Than Thought!

A Look At The Antarctic

• Antarctica is a continent about 1 ½ times bigger than the United States and is surrounded by water.
• It is Earth’s Southernmost landmass, overlying the South Pole.
• About 90% of the ice on Earth is located in Antarctica. These are large, thick ice sheets that normally move at Glacial speeds
• Sea Ice Surrounding Antarctica roughly doubles the continent’s size during its winter.
• The highest peak on the continent is the Vinson Massif at 16,077 feet which is about 600 miles from the South Pole.
• Temperatures at the South Pole reach 140 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
• Antarctica has penguins but no polar bears...and scientific research centers from nations all over the world.
• Together, all of the Glaciers in West Antarctica are loosing 114 billion tons of ice per year because of the rapid melting reported…this is much greater then the new snow fall that would replace it.
• It is also more than equivalent to the current mass loss from the whole of the Greenland Ice Sheet!

The oceans are getting bluer...due to a loss of Oxygen rich plankton, and deeper due to the Polar meltdown... we have little time to reverse this effect.