Antarctic Ice Sheet and Glaciers are melting faster than expected. Past the point of no return.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/antarctic-ice-sheet-climate-change-environment-106603.html?ml=la

A giant portion of an Antarctic ice sheet appears to be on an “unstoppable” decline, new researched released Monday showed, which could lift sea levels faster than previously forecast.

The pullback of several glaciers, coupled with the faster-than-expected out flows of ice, suggests that “the disappearance of ice in that sector is unstoppable,” said University of California Irvine professor Eric Rignot, the lead author of the new study and a glaciologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in California.

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