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Rapid ice melt in west Antarctica now inevitable, research shows
- simonblack 3y agoThe Antarctic is playing 'catch-up'. There is a lag between the build-up of CO2 in the Northern Hemisphere where most of the World's population live, and the transfer across the Equator into the Southern Hemisphere of the CO2 that those people produce. We saw lots of melting in the Arctic first of course, but as the CO2 comes south we'll see more and more melting in the Antarctic as well as temperatures rise there too.