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.
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 world's glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons annual from 2000 to 2011, but that quickened to about 346 billion tons annually over about the next decade, according to the study in this week's journal Nature.
'Glaciers are apolitical and unbiased sentinels of climate change, and their decline paints a clear picture of accelerated warming,' said Gwenn Flowers, a professor of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Canada, who wasn't part of the study.University of Colorado ice scientist Ted Scambos, who also wasn't part of the study, said glaciers shrank and grew in the past for local, well-understood reasons that were not climate change.
Change Is Shrinking Glaciers Faster Than Ever With Trillion Tons Lost Since 2000
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