Antarctic giant ice shelves to collapse 1999.04.15

The giant shelf ice at both ends of the Antarctic Peninsula, from March 1998 to March 99 just about 2,800 square kilometers was newly collapsed, the sea flowed into the ocean and the Colorado Heavy Snow Ice Data center announced. In the last 50 years there has been a gradual collapse of about 7,000 square kilometers, but the collapse in the temperate climate has accelerated, and in the next few years the vast majority of the huge shelf ice could be gone. According to United Kingdom observations, the average annual temperature in the region has risen about 2.5 degrees compared to the 40 's.