Posted on 02/20/2025 2:19:07 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s.
The study drew on an international effort that included 233 estimates of changes in glacier weight. The world’s glaciers have lost more than 7 trillion tons of ice since 2000, according to the study.
“The thing that people should be aware of and perhaps worried about is that yes, the glaciers are indeed retreating and disappearing as we said they would. The rate of that loss seems to be accelerating,” said William Colgan, a glaciologist for the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and one of about 60 authors of the study.
Colgan said that many places — such as those in the U.S. West — are seeing extra water now from fast-melting glaciers and benefiting from that boost, but that will soon disappear as the glaciers melt beyond a point of no return.
Melting glaciers contribute more to sea level rise than ice loss in either Greenland or Antarctica. Only the expansion of water as it warms plays a bigger role in sea level rise, the paper said.
The overall glacier loss rate is similar, if maybe slightly less, than that found by earlier and less comprehensive studies. But this new work will probably trigger new predictions that will be even gloomier in the future because of better information and worsening warming, Colgan said.
“If you’re losing 5.5% of the global ice volume in just over 20 years, clearly that’s not sustainable,” Colgan said. “That’s going to catch up with you.”
The more than 600 billion tons of glacier loss in 2023 “sounds incredible now, but it might sound pretty normal in 10 years from now,” Colgan said.
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Wrong again Ass Press. We are having an old fashioned winter here. Wish it would end.
AP -trash. Never give up the con, right?
Better snap up those beach front lots in Greenland before they’re all gone!
And much of North America used to be covered with a mile thick of ice..
This is what happens during interglacial periods... the ice melts!
Beach front property! Hello! Fidiots!
AssPress
No worries Climate change will kill us by 2032. We are all dead, it is inevitable, the plant is past the tipping point per the Cult of Climate Change.
False.
I still have not forgotten this shameful “disappearing glaciers” scam:
Glaciers are still there...surprise, surprise, surprise.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Pay more tax dollars to hold it up!
Uh Huh
Where do the “multiple private foundations” get their money?
This is like a game of dominoes—all roads lead back to .gov.
Does anyone believe the AP about anything?
All Propaganda = AP
They’ve destroyed their credibility
More B.S.
Good! Clear out that Arctic for our new shipping routes and our new ports in Greenland, USA.
Someone should tell the writer that glaciers are not “lost”, if they melt, they turn into liquid water.
“Lost”...maybe they are just hiding from these fake “scientists”.
Greenland can make us so much more green when it’s Greenerland.
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