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Melting ice in the western Antarctic could hardly be stopped , the consequences of sea level rise .

With the speed of melting ice during this , sea level rise predictions compiled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to be adjusted .

" A large part of the West Antarctic ice sheet melts and can not go back , " said Eric Rignot , professor of Earth system at the University of California , Irvine .

" Melting can not be stopped , " he added . There are no big hills behind a layer of ice that could hold water from melting ice to not flow into the sea .

" This melting will have a major impact on sea level rise around the world , " said Rignot .

" It will raise the sea level up to 1.2 meters or 4 feet , " he added that publishes research at the Geophysical Research Letters .

Rignot study is one of the results of research on melting ice in the Antarctic were released simultaneously on Monday ( 05/12/2014 ) .

Another study conducted by Ian Joughin and published in the journal Science . Both see the changes in the Antarctic and predict future trends with computer simulations .

Rignot , which is the polar ice researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , digging satellite data , observed by aircraft and ships , as well as direct surveying Antarctic ice .

The research results revealed that melting ice in Pine Island slowed in recent years. However , it occurs because of rapid melting has occurred many years earlier .

On the other hand , based on data since 2006 , in Thwaites melting takes place more quickly .

Joughin , appropriate research , stating that the Thwaites ice melting could cause sea level rise of up to 61 cm .

The conclusion is based on data trends on the future of Antarctica , coupled with the radar data that enable see rocks under the ice .

Joughin , which is a polar ice expert at the University of Washington , said it was inevitable meltdown . Ice can melt all within a period of 200-1000 years .

" All of our simulations show that the loss of ice will make sea level rise of less than 1 cm for several hundreds of years , and then boom , will be quick , " he said .

Predicted sea level rise associated with climate change to date has not included the loss of ice in Antarctica .

Sridhar Anandakrishnan , professor of earth sciences at Pennsylvania State University , who was not involved in the study , said the results of this research will make the United Nations to change their predictions .

As quoted by AFP on Monday , he said that the upper limit of sea level rise of about 90 cm or 3 feet .

All the processes that lead to the melting of ice in Antarctica , said Anandakrishnan , related to climate change . Climate change itself is affected by humans , some of which use fossil fuels .