Antarctica

Antarctica, the worlds largest most contiguous sheet of continental Ice is bigger than twice the size of Australia or the United States and Mexico combined!

The ice sheets are an average thickness of one mile, with some areas as thick as three miles!

The amount of fresh water locked into the ice sheets is enormous, more than one may be able to fathom. Approximately 1 cubic mile of water is what is consumed in Los Angeles per year, while approximately 26 cubic miles of water is what has been estimated to be released per year in recent times.

The rate of glacial melting is so alarming in that the world will change forever if even one significant sheet is lost.

It is perhaps too late to stop this process. The geologic record doesn't show herself readily, but several lines of evidence suggest the sheet has not been lost since the Miocene Age-25 Million years ago. To find now that it is melting, after 25 million years, is crazy.

Is this natural variability, not likely.

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