The research, conducted by a team led by the University of Leeds and published in the journal
The Cryosphere, revealed that a total of twenty-eight trillion metric tons of ice was lost between 1994 and 2017.
In the 1990s, the planet’s ice was melting at a rate of about seven hundred sixty billion tons per year but in the 2010s, that figure surged 60 percent to an average of 1.2 trillion tons each year.
“The ice sheets are now following the worst-case climate warming scenarios set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” lead author Thomas Slater, a research fellow at the University of Leeds’ Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, said in a statement.
You do realise that man has managed to live through far far worse scenarios than youâre painting? Around ten thousand years ago the sea levels were 400 ft lower than they are now, and yet weâre still here? How can that be? What did mankind do? They simply moved. Islands have come and disappeared all through history, big deal. Remember the original Australians walked to Australia, they didnât need boats. And I wonât even start on the Youngest Toba, which may have reduced the entire human population to only 10s of thousands…yet here we are.
I do believe in humans living on planet earth are affecting climatic conditions but I also know enough history to understand that this is not going wipe people off the face of the earth…that will be a extraterrestrial high impact body, from that there is no doubt.
The world's ice is melting so fast that sea level rise predictions can't keep up. In the 1990s, the Earth's ice was melting at a rate of about 760 billion tons per year. That has surged 60 percent to an average of 1.2 trillion tons per year in the 2010s, a study published Monday in the journal The Cryosphere estimates. And as another study published earlier this month in Science Advances makes clear, the problem is feeding into itself. Climate change is largely responsible for the huge ice melt surge, the Cryosphere study reports. In fact, about three percent of all the energy trapped within the Earth's systems because of climate change has gone toward that ice melt, the study estimates. "That’s like more than 10,000 'Back to the Future' lightning strikes per second of energy melting ice around-the-clock since 1994," William Colgan, an ice-sheet expert at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, told The Washington Post. "That
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