Climate change
"Has lost control of melting ice"
Christina Nordh
Updated 13.11 | Published 08.50
West Antarctica is lost, according to a new study. Photo: David Vaughan
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According to scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, the rate of ice melting will accelerate over the next century, raising sea levels at the same time. Regardless of measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions, writes Live Science.
The development is inevitable and is a consequence of climate change, according to the study.
Even if the temperature increase can be limited to the Paris Agreement's 1.5 degrees, the ice will melt three times faster during the end of the 21st century than it did during the 20th century.
- It looks like we have lost control of the melting ice sheet in West Antarctica. If we wanted to preserve it as it was historically, we would have had to act on climate change decades ago, says researcher and study lead author Kaitlin Naughten.
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Climate threatAlpina World Cup Excavators on the glacier upset: "It's a disaster"
Ahead of this weekend's Alpine World Cup premiere in Sölden, Austria, "skiing and nature conservation are pitted against each other," writes Greenpeace in a press release. Since April, the organizers have been using excavators and probably also explosives to remove ice from the already melting Rettenbach glacier in order to optimize the slope, according to the environmental organization.
A scandal, writes Greenpeace on Instagram and is supported by the former Austrian alpine star Felix Neureuther who, according to the Kronen Zeitung, calls it a "disaster for the credibility of the sport".
Jakob Falkner, head of the World Cup organization in Sölden, says in the same newspaper that the accusations are harmful and that it is normal and approved maintenance work.
Swedish alpine star Sara Hector tells DN that she perceived it as the organizers trying to remove glacier cracks.
- But it's difficult if you don't know exactly how it is.
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