https://www.sciencealert.com/a-grim-2017-prediction-about-the-canadian-ice-caps-has-come-true
DAVID NIELD4 AUGUST 2020
Scientists don’t always like being right: take the team that warnedin a paper published in 2017that the St. Patrick Bay ice caps in Canada would soon disappear, for example. The latest NASA satellite imagery shows that their prediction has sadly come true, and even faster than they expected.
Scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder initially predicted the disappearance of the St. Patrick Bay ice caps would take place over five years, but it’s actually only taken three.
The frozen sheets, probably in place for several centuries, measured more than 10 square kilometres (3.86 square miles) combined at the end of the 1950s, and have now shrunk down to nothing. It’s a sign of theclimate changethat’sgaining momentumall around the world, and showing no signs of stopping.
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