Melting ice could accelerate global warming, says Gore - Deutsche Welle- Topic: global warming news

Just months before the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, experts and politicians have met in Norway to discuss the disastrous impacts of melting ice in Antarctica, the Arctic and mountain areas worldwide. Gore told foreign ministers and climate change scientists that the ice was melting faster in the Arctic and in Greenland than the worst-case projections by experts a few years ago. But increased glacial melting in the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau as well as of land glaciers elsewhere in the world would also have detrimental effects for millions of people, Stoere said. Populations in South Asia could suffer from flooding not only from the melting of the Himalayas, but also from rising sea levels due to ice melting at the poles, he said. This week, the United States invited China, India and the world's other top greenhouse gas polluters to Washington to lay the groundwork for a UN deal to fight climate change.

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