Ice Sheet Retreat Accelerating at Alarming Rates Due to Global Warming
A new study shows that ice sheets retreated in pulses of nearly 2,000 feet per day as the oceans warmed at the end of the last ice age. The rate of retreat was up to 20 times faster than has previously been measured anywhere else, and the findings highlight the importance of stopping the current course of ice sheet melting driven by human impacts to the climate. The study implies that pulses of sea level rise could also be much greater than the long-term average rates currently projected by climate models.