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Satellites monitoring the state of the White Continent indicate some 200 billion tonnes a year are now being lost to the ocean as a result of melting.
This is pushing up global sea levels by 0.6mm annually - a three-fold increase since 2012 when the last such assessment was undertaken.
Scientists report the new numbers in the journal Nature.
Governments will need to take account of the information and its accelerating trend as they plan future defences to protect low-lying coastal communities.
The researchers say the losses are occurring predominantly in the West of the continent, where warm waters are getting under and melting the fronts of glaciers that terminate in the ocean.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44470208
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0179-y
See also: Ars Technica, Phys Org and University of Leeds.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @05:17PM
It is a bad thing if you like stability and food. Humanity has pumped a huuuuge amount of CO2 into the atmosphere so the exact numbers aren't that important. 10% or 90% responsible we still shouldn't burn coal/oil/gas if we can help it.
Suck it up, admit you've been wrong, move forward with renewable energy sources that don't give us as many health problems.