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Melting Antarctic ice

Melting Antarctic ice

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


Melting Antarctic ice

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Aug 8, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

One More or Less listener has heard that if all the ice in Antarctica melted, global sea levels would rise by 70 metres. But it would take 361 billion tonnes of ice to raise the world's sea levels by just 1 millimetre.

So how much ice is in Antarctica? And in the coming years, what impact might temperature changes have on whether it remains frozen?

(Gentoo penguins on top of an iceberg at King George Island, Antarctica January 2020. Credit: Alessandro Dahan/ Getty Images)
Released:
Aug 8, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4