{"id":8081,"date":"2023-10-24T18:29:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8081"},"modified":"2023-10-24T18:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:29:42","slug":"humanity-has-lost-control-over-the-melting-of-antarctic-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/10\/24\/humanity-has-lost-control-over-the-melting-of-antarctic-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Mankind has &quot;lost control&quot; of the melting of the Antarctic ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Melting is expected\u00a0<\/span><span>West Antarctic ice sheet loss will accelerate significantly in the coming decades and could raise sea levels even if the world meets its commitments to limit\u00a0<\/span><span>global warming<\/span><span>\u00a0, according to a study published Monday. Scientists from\u00a0<\/span><span>British Antarctic Survey <\/span><span>\u00a0The authors of the new study warned that humanity has \u201clost control\u201d over the fate of ice shelves, these gigantic frozen structures floating on the edge of the main ice sheet that play a stabilizing role in slowing the drift and melting of glaciers in the ocean. Antarctica has already seen accelerated ice loss in recent decades, and scientists said the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which contains enough water to raise sea levels by several meters, could be approaching a climate \u201ctipping point.\u201d The scientists found (using computer modeling) that faster melting of ice shelves is already inevitable in the coming decades due to warming oceans. (<em>Jonathan Bamber)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The melting of West Antarctic ice is expected to accelerate significantly in the coming decades and could raise sea levels even if the world meets its commitments to limit global warming, a study published on Monday said. The British Antarctic Survey scientists behind the new study warned that humanity has \u201elost control\u201c over the fate of ice shelves, these gigantic frozen structures floating on the edge of the main ice sheet [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}