The World Ocean will rise on half-meter from thawing of "the Doomsday glacier"

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Nature: thawing of "the Doomsday glacier" will lift level of the World Ocean on half-meter of information agency "RIA Novosti" Tueyts's Glacier in Western Antarctica, better known as "the Doomsday glacier", quickly thaws because of too warm water. If it completely is dissolved, it will lead to increase of level of the World Ocean on half-meter, scientists from intergovernmental group warned on pages Nauchny zhurnal Nature. This glacier of the size of State of Florida became a symbol of global warming. Satellite pictures showed that it "the grounding line", that is a place of a hitch of ice between breed and the sea, since the end of the 1990th years was displaced...