A new study published in nature reveals that the Ice is melting by ‘concerned’, with consequences for the increase in sea level.
Loss of ice from world glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, revealed that the first such global assessment, a warning that melting maybe faster than before it was expected in the coming years and increased the sea level.
The estimate he published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, an international researcher team, revealed a sudden increase in melting in the past decade, with about 36 percent more ice lost in the period 2012 to 2023 than in the years from 2000 to 2011.
Michael Zemp, a professor at the University of Zurich and the study co -author, said the findings were “shocking”, if not quite surprising.
The regions with smaller glaciers lose them faster, and many “will not survive the present century”.
“So, we are facing a greater increase in sea levels by the end of this century than before,” Zemp told the AFP news agency, adding that the loss of glaciers will also affect the supply of fresh water, especially in central Asia and central Andes.
Overall, researchers have found that world glaciers have lost about five percent of their volume from the turn of the century, with wide regional differences in ranging of two percent loss in Antarctica up to 40 percent in European Alps.
On average, about 273 billion tons of ice are lost annually – the equivalent consumption of the world’s water population for 30 years, scientists said.
Research – Coordinated World Leden Opposition Service (WGMS), University of Edinburgh and Earthwave Research Group – it was an effort to bring together field and satellite measurements to create a “reference assessment” for monitoring ice loss.
Martin Siegert, a professor at the University of Exeter, who was not involved in the studio, said that the research was “as far as it was concerned” because he envisages further losses from glaciers and may indicate that Antarctic and Greenland’s huge ice leaves respond to globally heating.
“Ice leaves are now losing weight with increasing the rate – six times more than 30 years – and when they change, we stop talking centimeters and start talking to meters,” he said.
Zemp warned that to save the world’s glaciers, “you have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it’s easy and so complicated.”
“Every tenth of the heating of the degree we avoid saving us money, saving our lives, saving us problems,” he said.
