Sunday, April 01, 2012

The penguin habitat is disappearing and it is becoming dangerous in Antarctica.

When the ice shelves melt the other ice formations are exposed to warmer air and they melt. The latest fissuring of the ice can lead to huge losses and exposure of 'land based ice' causing instability.


Just one of those things, right?


I told you so.


...The most extensive record (click title to entry - thank you) yet of the evolution of the floating ice shelves in the eastern Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica shows that their margins, where they grip onto rocky bay walls or slower ice masses, are fracturing and retreating inland. As that grip continues to loosen, these already-thinning ice shelves will be even less able to hold back grounded ice upstream, according to glaciologists at The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics (UTIG)....