Antarctic glaciers shrinking faster due to Global Warming

Another study revealing facts, which will not surprise many. Global warming is for real and is here to stay. However, the results are becoming apparent which are quite scary in the first outlook. Reports say that effects of Global Warming are very visible on the Arctic glaciers, which shrank more rapidly during the last 50 years than ever before.

This report was released by the British Antarctic Survey, which is working together with the US Geological Survey. The organizations published the results in the recent issue of the journal Science. They monitored 244 glaciers on the peninsula using more than 2,000 aerial photographs taken during the last half century. Also taken into consideration were 100 images provided by modern satellites.

The report claims that the normal behavior of the glaciers was to slowly grow in length some 5 decades ago. However, now the trend has reversed and they are loosing mass rapidly. The temperature at the Antarctic has also increased in the last couple of decades with a rise of almost 2 degree Celsius.

The changes are likely to affect the human occupied areas in the coming times. One of the possible first regions to get affected is likely to be Southern Australia where the weather is highly dependent upon the distribution of sea ice and other conditions around the Antarctic continent.