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BBC report:
Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years - BBC News
Nature paper referenced here:
Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017 | Nature
Looks like if this massive reserve of ice is, indeed, melting faster than we thought, we are looking at even greater estimates of sea level rise by 2100.
I look forward to the denier outrage and flurry of uninformed denier blog posts to come.
Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years - BBC News
Nature paper referenced here:
Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017 | Nature
Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years
By Jonathan Amos and Victoria Gill
Antarctica is shedding ice at an accelerating rate.
Satellites monitoring the state of the White Continent indicate some 200 billion tonnes a year are now being lost to the ocean as a result of melting.
This is pushing up global sea levels by 0.6mm annually - a three-fold increase since 2012 when the last such assessment was undertaken.
Scientists report the new numbers in the journal Nature.
Looks like if this massive reserve of ice is, indeed, melting faster than we thought, we are looking at even greater estimates of sea level rise by 2100.
I look forward to the denier outrage and flurry of uninformed denier blog posts to come.