Using the combined data from 50 satellite surveys of Antarctica and Greenland to determine their rate of ice melting scientists found that Earth’s polar ice sheets lost 7,560 billion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2020.
“The polar ice sheets have together lost ice in every year of the satellite record, and the seven highest melting years have occurred in the past decade.”
“After a decade of work we are finally at the stage where we can continuously update our assessments of ice sheet mass balance as there are enough satellites in space monitoring them, which means that people can make use of our findings immediately.”—Prof Andrew Shepherd, Northumbria University
Melt acceleration is now well documented.
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