Multi Meter Sea Level Rise, Antarctic Sea Ice & Ice Melt Acceleration

A pair of new studies released on Monday share a same ominous message -- that our planet's ice is melting at an alarming rate, which is bad news for global sea levels. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/14/world/climate-change-antarctica-ice-melt-twin-studies/index.html

Antarctic ice-sheet sensitivity to obliquity forcing enhanced through ocean connections https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0284-4

Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017 https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/01/08/1812883116

A record-low start to the new year in Antarctica http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2019/01/a-record-low-start-to-the-new-year-in-antarctica/

Evolution of #Antarctic melt season since November - its sea ice extent is currently around 1,000,000 square kilometers below average https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1086296356551979010

Catherine Walker: Global Warming and Changes in East Antarctic Glaciers #AGU2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P9X7lLl5Iw

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