Patagonia glaciers now melting ten times faster
Posted Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:50:00 GMT by Martin Leggett
A new study, published in the current issue of Nature Geoscience, has been able to measure the rate of Patagonia glacier loss over the last several hundred years. The team of scientists, from Britain and Sweden, has found that current melting rates are ten times faster than newly measured historical rates. With temperatures in the region rising fast, in line with global warming climate model projections, it seems the death of Patagonia's glaciers has man's hand behind it.
Patagonia glaciers now melting ten times faster