{"id":3612,"date":"2012-08-10T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2012-08-10T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T18:10:31","slug":"antarcticas-glacial-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2012\/08\/10\/antarcticas-glacial-melt\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica’s Glacial Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"

There should no longer be any doubt. Climate change is here, and it is happening. 26,000 broken heat records<\/a> this summer speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

Extreme weather events hit home. Another consequence of climate change, by contrast \u2013 rising sea levels \u2013 often seems far away and far off.<\/p>\n

\u201cFar away\u201d is easily dismissed. U.S. coasts are as much in danger as sea shores anywhere else on the planet.<\/p>\n

“Far off\u201d often seems tougher to address.\u00a0After all, seas have only risen by inches so far. Projections say we could see three or more feet\u00a0by the end of the century.<\/p>\n

Even\u00a0right now, though, we\u2019re seeing the evidence of sea level rise. Antarctic ice sheets\u00a0have been\u00a0melting to the tune of 24 cubic miles of melt water per year<\/a>, every year<\/em>, since 2002.<\/p>\n

That is a huge number, but a fairly abstract number. So The Globalist<\/a><\/em> designed a quiz to make the giant quantity feel a bit more real. EDF\u00a0was honored to help with the research for the quiz.<\/p>\n

See if you can answer the question:<\/p>\n

If you were to take the melt-off from Antarctica’s ice sheets over the past decade (2002 to 2012) and pour it into a California-sized Jell-O mold, how high would the water rise?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The right answer might surprise you. Hint: Think Paul Sturgess<\/a>, the world’s tallest professional basketball player.<\/p>\n

And check out The Globalist quiz<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There should no longer be any doubt. Climate change is here, and it is happening. 26,000 broken heat records this summer speak for themselves. Extreme weather events hit home. Another consequence of climate change, by contrast \u2013 rising sea levels \u2013 often seems far away and far off. \u201cFar away\u201d is easily dismissed. U.S. coasts …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,52,20,38,42],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic-antarctic","category-extreme-weather","category-news","category-oceans","category-science"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAntarctica's Glacial Melt - Climate 411<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2012\/08\/10\/antarcticas-glacial-melt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Antarctica's Glacial Melt - Climate 411\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There should no longer be any doubt. 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