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At the end of last year, the researchers trumpeted with might and main the resulting 160-km gap in the ice of Antarctica. However the giant crack soon “froze” and did not particularly disturb scientists. AND there’s another crack in the Larsen ice shelf being an offshoot of the main break.
This was to be expected, says British glaciologist Adrian Luckman (Swansea University), because, despite the stability the gap of recent months, it still expanded, approximately per meter per day.
A new crack “runs” in the direction of the Weddell Sea, and it remains “walk” in just some 20 kilometers. As soon as she reaches shores, scientists say, the Antarctic glacier will crack, from it a giant iceberg of approximately 5-6 thousand square kilometers in area. How does this threaten our planet?
Adrian Luckman assures that this will not affect the level of world ocean, at least you can expect only a little increase it, which will not affect the life of the planet as a whole. A here is the stability of the entire glacial cover of Antarctica, apparently will be in jeopardy. And this can already lead to serious problems for the Earth.
Scientists see the main reason for the destruction of the Antarctic glacier as global climate change of the Earth. Today’s sad discovery was made using Sentinel-1 satellites that sent radar images of the surface of the glacier.
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