The first study to directly attribute Antarctic glacier retreat to climate change shows Pine Island Glacier was pushed significantly further by human driven warming.
The first study to directly attribute Antarctic glacier retreat to climate change shows Pine Island Glacier was pushed significantly further by human driven warming.
Human-driven climate change significantly intensified the retreat of one the most important glaciers in the Antarctica during the twentieth century.
The Pine Island Glacier, which drains a large part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Amundsen Sea, is one of the single biggest contributors to global sea level rise.
This landmark research, led by scientists at King’s College London and the British Antarctic Survey and published in The Cryosphere, is the first study to directly attribute the changes of a major Antarctic outlet glacier to the activities of humans.
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