South Pole glacier is a risk of sea level

london - Which quickly melt the west of the South Pole, is already known. But now appears to melt a glacier on the east side of the Antarctic fast. If global warming continues at the current pace, the Totten Glacier will retire in the coming centuries 300km. The melted glacier ends up in the sea and therefore the sea level will rise by 2.9 meters.

A group of international scientists has calculated that. Their study is Wednesday in the major science journal Nature.

The researchers discovered that there are hot water flowing under a portion of the glacier. Thereby melting more ice than expected. The front of the glacier now lies on the coast. If the glacier is 100 to 150 kilometers inland retracts, the front will be located in an unstable area. Then the withdrawal will go faster and there is nothing to do about it.
  
    
     
      
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,, East Antarctica is much more vulnerable to global warming than we thought. We have to worry about creating '' the researchers say. The east of the South Pole is the largest mass of ice on Earth.,, Any small change that has a major influence on the world. ''