Washington: An international study has revealed that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting three times faster per year than they were 30 years ago. The researchers, using 50 different satellite estimates, found that the Greenland ice sheet has been melting at a very rapid rate over the past few years. According to the study, from 2017 to 2020, the Greenland ice sheet was 20 percent more stable than the average onset and seven times the annual rate of melting compared to the beginning of the 1990s.
Ruth Mottram, co-author of a climatological study from the Danish Meteorological Institute, said that the new figures are very devastating indeed. He said that the ice sheets are rapidly decreasing in Greenland. The study’s lead author Ines Otosaka, a glaciologist at the University of Leeds in the UK, attributed the rapid melting of ice to human-caused climate change.
These two ice sheets, which account for 99 percent of the world’s fresh water ice, lost 116 billion tons of ice during 1992 to 1996. Two-thirds of this ice melted in the Antarctic. According to the study, between 2017 and 2020, according to new data, 410 billion tonnes of ice melted within a year. Two-thirds of this ice melted in Greenland.
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