Much like a toddler seeing how many ice cubes he can drop in a glass of water before it overflows, God appears to be seeing how many Mt. Everest-sized chunks of ice he can throw into the ocean until Miami Beach becomes Bikini Bottom.
Despite its formidable lineage, the Amundsen Sea is widely recognized as the weakest link in the West Antarctic’s splintering chain of ice sheets. But only now is it becoming clear just how fast change is coming.
There, the melting rate tripled in the past decade. Since 1992, the researchers found, the loss rate accelerated by 6.1 gigatons per year. Between 2003 and 2009, that rate nearly tripled to 16.3 gigatons per year. That surge in the melt rate, according to scientists at the University of California at Irvine, means the region, in the past 21 years, shed a Mount Everest-sized amount of ice every two years.
I think it may be time to invest in Krabby Patties.
