Poles apart, and melting

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/poles-apart-and-melting/2006/11/12/1163266411958.html


THE volume of ice at both ends of the world appears to be shrinking.

Earlier this year a study of Antarctica's ice sheet found it had lost about 152 cubic kilometres of ice a year since April 2002.

Now NASA scientists who have mapped Greenland's total ice volume say it too is on a "downward slide", with losses caused by melting, and the breaking of ice sheets into icebergs, far surpassing gains from new snowfalls.

They estimated that between 2003 and last year 54 billion tonnes of ice formed annually in Greenland's interior. However, its coastal regions lost about 155 billion tonnes a year. As a result the island suffered an annual net ice loss of more than 100 billion tonnes - equal to a shrinkage of about 112 cubic kilometres a year.

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Naw, no global warming. Nothing to worry about. /sarcasm off