Study: Ice Sheets Melting Faster than Predicted Story aired: Friday, February 17, 2006
Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting more than twice as quickly as scientists previously predicted, causing dire forecast of weather change and environmental devastation in years to come.
In a study released in Friday's issue of Science, satellite images have produced evidence that global warming is progressing fast enough to pose imminent dangers to low-lying environments around the world.
Guests:
Pannir Kanagartnam, assistant professor at the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center at the University of Kansas and one of the authors of the new study
