Well, hello, welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to

another Friday Headlines episode. If you are sick of all the

Brittany Spears memoir bombshells in your news feed. I've got you covered. We're talking about some real news today. We're talking about environmental need to know headlines that you may have missed because of all the Brittany Spears coverage.

So the first part of our show today has to do with some melting ice and the causes for that

melting ice.

Hello, fossil fuels extraction.

That's all in part one.

And then in part two of today's show,

after the break, I have two completely unrelated stories

for you.

Still related to the environment, of course.

So let's go to Antarctica, a new study published on Monday of this week found that

accelerating ice losses are quote, unavoidable this century in the vulnerable west Antarctic ice shelves.

And that's all due to the fact that the waters around these ice shelves are warming.

Now what does this mean? It means that the scientists, those scientists who

predicted just you know a couple inches of sea level rise before the year 2100,

they were wrong, they were too conservative in those

predictions I'm gonna say that another way so we're all clear it's worse the

situation is worse than the scientists predicted.

Now the study found that regardless of how aggressively humans act to reduce fossil fuel emissions

and thus of course limit how fast the planet heats up.

The waters around some of West Antarctica's glaciers are going to warm still at a pace three times

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