Long View Item 027

Antarctic Item 027 is also from Marble Point. Held in the air, the wire strand's graceful curve echoes the slopes of nearby Mount Erebus, the world's southernmost active volcano. Placed against a grid, it resembles a line graph that made the news about a year ago. NASA-ESA-_ice_sheet_contribution_500x320 The graph accompanied a paper published in the journal Science showing that Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are melting at an accelerating pace causing seas globally to rise. Combined, the sheets have lost about 4,250 gigatons of ice since 1992, raising the average sea level around the globe by 11 millimeters. Though less than half an inch, this amount significantly increases the water mass capable of striking land during storm surges, necessitating new protection of coastal infrastructure.

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