Antarctica: a meeting of polar and political minds (AP)

February 23rd, 2009 by admin

Antarctica: a meeting of polar and political minds
(AP)

A member of a group of a group of visiting environment ministers and other representatives from more than a dozen nations gazes up at the monumental rock towers rising from 1,500-foot-deep ice sheets near the Norwegian Troll Research Station in Antarctica on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. The group flew in to the remote station to learn from international scientists about whether and how global warming may melt Antarctic ice, raising sea levels.(AP Photo/Charles J. Hanley)AP – Policymakers met polar explorers on the boundless ice of Antarctica Monday as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific expedition came in from the cold to report on the continent’s ice sheets, a potential source for a catastrophic “big melt” from global warming.

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