Loss of the Ice Mass in Antarctica. Increasing Sea Level Rise

Antarctica is losing its glaciers. And Greenland is losing its glaciers.

Greenland's Rapid Ice Melt Persists Even in Winter, Study Finds
...a report released earlier this month showing that Greenland's ice melt rate is currently faster than it's been in about 7,000 years. The island's 650,000 cubic miles of ice is melting 50 percent faster than it did in pre-industrial times.
What are they going to say when all the ice is gone?
 
When Antarctica loses its glaciers, what are you going to say then?
The most recent gathering of scientists at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, DC, brought deeply troubling news about the Antarctic.
Jeremy Shakun, a paleoclimatologist at Boston College, told Science that the large increase in the loss of ice mass in Antarctica in the last decade or two could already be the beginning stage of the process of collapse of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Ice loss in the Antarctic has tripled in just the last decade alone, and is currently losing 219 billion metric tons of ice annually. That number is up from 73 billion metric tons per year as of a decade ago.
Climate change is not a debatable issue.

Eastern Antarctica has always been seen as a place virtually impervious to melting, and has often been referred to as the “last bastion” of stable ice on the planet.
However, recent data has shown that a group of glaciers covering 13 percent of the coastline of that side of the frozen continent are melting from below due to warming oceans.
I have a Polar Bear friend that is saving me a spot on a well elevated tropic island he rowed to a few years ago when he nearly drown.
 
Antarctica is losing its glaciers. And Greenland is losing its glaciers.

...a report released earlier this month showing that Greenland's ice melt rate is currently faster than it's been in about 7,000 years. The island's 650,000 cubic miles of ice is melting 50 percent faster than it did in pre-industrial times.
What are they going to say when all the ice is gone?


You have no clue how small that mass loss really is because you ignore the total mass of the Glaciers, here from IMBIE

Antarctica,
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Greenland,

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