Brown Glacier (Heard Island, Southern Ocean) Melt Rate Up 400% Since 2000

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"A team of international scientists has returned to Australia from a three-month expedition to Antarctica with some alarming findings on climate change.

The scientists discovered a key glacier at in the middle of the Southern Ocean is melting much faster than expected.

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On the north-east coast of the island, glaciologists were disturbed to find Brown Glacier is melting at a faster rate than before.

In the 50 years to 2000, the glacier consistently lost half-a-metre of ice each year. Australian Antarctic Division Glaciologist Dr Doug Thost says in the years since then it has been melting at almost four times that rate. "The surface has been lowering just on average about two, just over two metres every year," Dr Thost said."

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1060459.htm