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		<title>Glaciers melting twice as fast as in 80s and 90s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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(Kongswegen glacier, Svalbard, 2007)</p>
<p>The World Glacier Monitoring Service is based at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their latest summary of results indicates the world&#8217;s glaciers are continuing to melt rapidly. The Alps are particularly badly hit, with a much faster melting rate than the world average.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/mbb/mbb10/sum07.html" target="_blank">Data from WGMS</a></p>
<p>WGMS scientist Michael Zemp says 2007 was the 6th year this century with glaciers losing an average of more than half a metre of ice. This means the melting rate has doubled, he says, in comparison with the 1980s and 90s.<br />
The WGMS Director is one of the world&#8217;s leading glacier experts. This background info. is worth a read, if you are interested in glaciers and how the information is collected:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.icsu-fags.org/ps09wgms.htm" target="_blank">Background on glaciers from WGMS Director Wilfried Haeberli</a></p>
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