Ocean warming is causing massive ice sheet loss in Greenland and Antarctica, according to a new study by NASA
A new study by NASA shows that Antarctica and Greenland's ice sheets lost 118 gigatons and 200 gigatons of ice on average per year. That would fill more than 127 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.According to NASA, the amount of ice lost could cover New York's Central Park in ice more than 1,000 feet thick, reaching higher than the Chrysler Building. This loss of ice has caused the sea level to rise by about half an inch between 2003 and 2019.
He told NASA,"We now have a 16-year span between ICESat and ICESat-2 and can be much more confident that the changes we're seeing in the ice have to do with the long-term changes in the climate." Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, scientists have made detailed measurements of how the elevation of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctic have changed over 16 years.
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