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May 19, 2021 03:21 PM EDT
While Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State emphasizes climate change in the Arctic at conferences with other national officials this week in Iceland, an even larger threat emerges on the other side of the planet.
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Global Temperatures Rise
New research reveals it is Antarctica that may compel a reckoning between the country s choices today about greenhouse gas emissions and the potential survival of their coastal cities and coastlines, from New York to Shanghai. That reckoning may arrive much earlier than people notice.
The amount of ice in the Arctic is reducing as global temperatures rise, and that is affecting lives directly and prompting feedback loops that provoke more warming. But the big wild card for the rising sea level is Antarctica. It holds sufficient land ice to increase global sea levels by over 60 meters (200 feet) - approximately 10 times the amount in the Greenland ice sheet - and we re already seeing some hint