People walk along Orne Harbour, Antarctica, on February 6. The melting of Antarctic ice is causing sea levels to rise 3mm a year, a process that will only speed up as the region records higher temperatures. Photo: Reuters
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Coronavirus might be the world’s immediate challenge, but Antarctic heat record should worry us more
- With the temperature at an Antarctic research base hitting 18.3 degrees this month and evidence of ice melting faster in the ‘doomsday glacier’, predictions of a 2-metre rise in sea levels seem more real. Governments, including Hong Kong’s, seem callously ill prepared
People walk along Orne Harbour, Antarctica, on February 6. The melting of Antarctic ice is causing sea levels to rise 3mm a year, a process that will only speed up as the region records higher temperatures. Photo: Reuters