Antarctic ice begins irreversible meltdown

Researchers believe the world has passed a point of no return as far as climate change goes after the Antarctic ice sheet went into an irreversible melting proccess.

The meltdown will cause the global ocean to rise by 10 feet or more, leading to a completely different world than the one we know today. Unfortunately, it is too late now to do something to change the current situation.

The warming waters are destabilizing the margins of a vast amount of ice, causing it to slowly but surely collapse. The process will be a long one, though, spreading over several centuries. The effects, nonetheless, will be felt sooner than that.

Researchers now turn to the only possibility left: if the process cannot be stopped, it can, however, be slowed down by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.

A climate scientist who has been studying polar ice sheets for years declared that: 'If we have indeed lit the fuse on West Antarctica, it’s very hard to imagine putting the fuse out. But there’s a bunch more fuses, and there’s a bunch more matches, and we have a decision now: Do we light those?'