Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice dangerously fast

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Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice dangerously fast

 

 

 

 

Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s, which means sea levels can rise by 17 cm by 2100, Daily Mail reported.

This would threaten the flooding of 400 million people in coastal areas.

Scientists from 50 international organizations surveyed melting ice shelves, processing data from 11 satellite missions and 26 separate analyzes to determine changes in mass, volume, flow and gravity.

The melting of ice in Greenland has raised sea levels by 11 millimeters

They found that Antarctica and Greenland lost 6.4 trillion tons of ice from 1992 to 2017, raising sea levels by 17.8 mm. 60 percent of that rise is due to frost ice in Greenland, and 40 percent is from Antarctica.

The combined rate of melting has increased from 81 billion tonnes a year in the 1990s to 475 billion tonnes a year after 2010.

"Satellite polar ice observations are essential to observations and predictions of how climate change can affect the loss of ice and sea level rise. Although computer simulations allow us to make predictions, satellite measurements give us compelling and undeniable evidence, "said one of the study authors, Eric Ivins of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.