Sentences with phrase «irreversible melt rate»
Glaciologists have announced that a huge ice stream in western Antarctica, recognised as the largest single contributor of ice to the sea, has begun an accelerated and irreversible melt rate that could see it shedding 100 billion tonnes a year, equating to a global sea level rise of up to 10 mm in 20 years.
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This ice sheet is losing mass at a rather larger rate (around 220 cubic kilometres per year) and it will take only another 1 - 2 oC world warming to raise the summer melt zone to the top of the Greenland ice pack after which point, in my understanding, the ice sheet will go into irreversible melt.