The satellite data revealed that 3 trillion tons of Antarctic ice was lost at a furious momentum and its speed was accelerating

A research team including NASA and ESA researchers observed through satellite from 1992 to 2017, it turned out that 3 trillion tons of ice was lost from Antarctica in 25 years. Furthermore, 40% of the total was lost in the five years from 2012 to 2017, scientists warned that the ice is fading with a violent momentum.

Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017 | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0179-y

Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/13/antarctic-ice-loss-has-tripled-in-a-decade-if-that-continues-we-are-in-serious-trouble/

Antarctica's ice is shrinking at an unprecedented rate that could imperil coastal regions worldwide
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-antarctic-ice-sheet-melting-20180613-story.html

Antarctica has lost trillions of tons of ice, boosting sea levels
https://mashable.com/2018/06/13/antarctica-ice-melt-sea-level-rise/

The most affected is the ice on the western side of the Antarctic, "These ice is melting fiercely, and a lot of ice flows like a river to the sea," NASA's Josh Willis I talked. It was never been observed that ice was melting so much, "I do not know what will happen next".


Changes from 1992 to 2017 can also be confirmed from the following movies.

Video One - YouTube


"Thanks to the satellites we have launched by the space agency, we can reliably track the appearance of ice melting and the sea level rise, and according to our analysis, in the past few decades the melting ice of the Antarctica Speed ​​is rapidly increasing and it is causing sea level rise faster than any timing in the past 25 years, "said meteorologist Andrew Shepherd. The sea level rise caused by Antarctica recorded in the past 25 years is 7.5 mm, but the rise of about 3 mm, which is 40% of that, was caused in the past 5 years.

Actually, as of 2012, it was said that "Antarctic ice flows to the sea about 840 tons each year, raising the sea level by 0.2 mm a year", but since 2012 it will be called Pine Island Glacier and Suweits of Antarctica With the glacier as the main, 240 billion tons of ice has started to be lost. The west side of Antarctica is greatly affected because there are two huge ice sheets.

Steve Rintoul, coauthor of the paper published this time, points out that the seawater temperature is relatively high in places where a lot of ice has been lost. Lumps of ice present at the edge of the continent play a role like "plug (plug)" that keeps the ice present in the continent, and the possibility that continental ice will flow out to the sea as the ice sheet becomes thin and weak It is said that there is also.


Researchers stated that "Antarctic ice sheet holds enough ice sheets to raise the sea level by 58 meters." Of course, no one has shown that all these ice flows out to the ocean, but remember that the billions of residents living on the coast will be affected by water shortages and floods just by slightly rising sea level It is a place to do.