Wilkens ice bridge . . . gone
April 15th, 2009 by Jim JustThe latest photos of the Wilkens ice sheet from the European Space Agency’s “webcam in space” show that the ice bridge is just . . . gone.
Stunning.
New research being published in Nature says at the end of the last interglacial (the Eemian) sea levels rose five centimeters a year for 50 years. The Eemian was some 2°C warmer than current global temperatures, but we’re well on track to hit that mark again, soon. Glaciers and ice sheets are already melting, and sea levels rising, as a result.