In its recently published 'Impact of Climate Change report,' the Potsdam Institute for Research warned that while the marine ice sheet is not destabilised yet, the point of no return could come sooner rather than later.
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00:00 Antarctica is disappearing and while the EU is still pushing to limit global warming and become climate neutral by 2050,
00:08 at this rate sea ice will continue to melt slowly but surely for generations to come.
00:15 That was a conclusion that the Potsdam Institute for Research made in its recently published "Impact of Climate Change" report.
00:22 With record temperatures across much of the world this year, 2.7 million km2 of sea ice has been lost and that's much more than experts expected.
00:33 So that's about the same as 10 times the area of the United Kingdom.
00:38 So this is a massive negative sea ice anomaly that we haven't really seen on this scale before within the period that we've monitored over the past 45 years.
00:48 This dramatic loss of sea ice is causing catastrophic failures in the reproduction of local wildlife.
00:55 The report says there are no visible signs of irreversible retreat yet, but we could reach the point of no return sooner rather than later.
01:05 Now unless we want to see a lot more of these things happening in the future we've really got to get on with decarbonising.
01:10 That won't solve the problem. There will be adaptation that's absolutely needed.
01:14 The complete collapse of the Antarctic could take hundreds or thousands of years, but would mean several metres of global sea rise for 10,000 years.
01:23 A more intense warming in the future would further accelerate this process.
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