ENVIRONMENT NASA presents Antarctic ice-melt conjecture as fact*

A speculative article published by five researchers in the online journal, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, predicting the breakdown of a minor ice shelf in Antarctica, has been widely reported by NASA and the media as evidence that the Antarctic ice sheet will disappear by 2020. The authors of the study looked at the Larsen B ice shelf, one of many which circle the Antarctic continent. It is located high on the Antarctic peninsula, a mass of mountains and ice which stretch upwards f…

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