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Antarctica: a continent threatened by global warming
Antarctica: a continent threatened by global warming – (France 2)
Global warming is being measured in Antarctica, where the sea ice is melting, its surface having never been so reduced. The great explorer, Jean-Louis Etienne, led an expedition to bear witness to these changes.
At the end of the world, Antarctica no longer escapes the effects of global warming even though it is the furthest expanse from any civilization. The great explorer, Jean-Louis Etienne, studies environmental degradation aboard an oceanographic sailboat. The team comes face to face with a failed tabular iceberg. Coming from the continent’s glaciers, this large block, 1,500 meters long, broke away and drifted away.
An increase in the release of icebergs
“Today there is a greater release of icebergs because the sea level is rising by a few millimeters, the water temperature is rising by a few tenths of degrees,” explains the explorer in charge of the expedition. . So it erodes these floating platforms.” The ice, once melted, will contribute to the rise in ocean water levels.
