{"id":4870,"date":"2015-01-26T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2015-01-26T07:21:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:21:10","slug":"antarcticas-totten-glacier-twice-the-size-of-victoria-melting-from-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4870","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica&#8217;s Totten Glacier, twice the size of Victoria, &#8216;melting from below&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-01-26\/sea-water-melting-totten-glacier-in-antarctica-from-below\/6047076\" target=\"_blank\">Antarctica&#8217;s Totten Glacier, twice the size of Victoria, &#8216;melting from below&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"first\">Warm ocean water is melting one of the world&#8217;s biggest glaciers from below, potentially leading to a rise in sea levels, Australian scientists have discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis recently returned to Hobart from Antarctica, with a team of 23 scientists who had used new technology to collect the first water samples near the Totten Glacier.<\/p>\n<p>At 538,000 square kilometres, Totten is twice the size of Victoria and holds enough water to raise sea levels by six metres.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Rintoul from the Australian Climate and Environment Cooperative Research Centre said the results indicated the glacier was being melted by the sea water beneath it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The measurements we collected provide the first evidence that warm water reaches the glacier and may be driving that melt of the glacier from below,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctica&#8217;s Totten Glacier, twice the size of Victoria, &#8216;melting from below&#8217; Warm ocean water is melting one of the world&#8217;s biggest glaciers from below, potentially leading to a rise in sea levels, Australian scientists have discovered. Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis recently returned to Hobart from Antarctica, with a team of 23 scientists who had used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2756,141,2920,369,2919],"class_list":["post-4870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-antarctica","tag-climate-change","tag-glacial-melting","tag-global-warming","tag-totten-glacier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4871,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions\/4871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}