Glaciers are losing more water each year than the world will consume in three decades, study warns
The thawing of 7 trillion tonnes of glacial ice since has raised sea levels by almost 2 centimetres, with the Alps a melting hotspot. Climate change is causing glaciers around the world to melt faster than ever recorded, a new scientific study has found.These bodies of ice have shrunk by more than 5 per cent on average since 2000 - and at an accelerating rate in the past decade.Scientists have long been aware that glaciers - indicators of human-caused climate change - are melting increasingly fast. But this new study, published in the journal Nature, draws together various findings for the most comprehensive look at the issue yet.“Regions that have had glaciers since time immemorial are losing these icons of ice,” says Tyler Sutterley, a senior research scientist in the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington. Sutterly is one of the study’s authors from a global consortium of hundreds of researchers called the Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise (GlaMBIE). How qu...
