The melting of glaciers in Greenland as well as in Antarctica has accelerated greatly over the past thirty years, according to a comprehensive new international study.
The study showed that between 2017 and 2020, average annual melting of the ice sheet in Greenland was 20% higher than at the start of the decade and more than seven times higher than in the early 1990s.
Study co-author Ruta Motrem, a climatologist at the Danish Meteorological Institute, called the new figures “truly catastrophic”. “We’re losing more and more ice in Greenland,” she said.
“This is a devastating trajectory. This rate of ice loss is unprecedented in modern civilization,” said Twyla Moon, deputy chief scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Center.
Since 1992, the Earth has lost 8.3 trillion tons of ice from the two ice sheets, the study found. That’s enough to flood the entire United States with almost 0.9 meters of water or submerge France by almost 15 meters.
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2023-05-28 08:10:42
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