Is the Antarctic ice shelf shrinking?

golden0000

There are many antartic ice shelves pieces of the filchner ronne iceshelf broke off The larsen ice shelf is disentagrating. The muller ice shelf recently collapsed Prince gustav ice shelf has collapsed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Antarctic_ice_shelves Apr 09 09, 12:40 PM

Midget40

2006 The Antarctic ice sheet is losing as much as 36 cubic miles of ice a year in a trend that scientists link to global warming, according to a new paper that provides the first evidence that the sheet's total mass is shrinking significantly. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030201712.html 2006 While some climate change research suggests that global sea levels are rising due to global warming and the shrinkage of glaciers, a new study in Science has found that the interior of the East Antarctic ice sheet is actually gaining mass http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20050425095213data_trunc_sys.shtml 2009 "The sedimentary record indicates that under global warming conditions that were similar to those projected to occur over the next century, protective ice shelves could shrink or even disappear and the WAIS would become vulnerable to melting," To complicate the situation a second related study claims if the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed and the East Antarctic ice sheet continued to melt at its marine margins, global sea level would rise seven metres from today's level. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/269436 Apr 09 09, 12:43 PM