The IPCC have projections for the amount of ice that will be lost due to melting depending on the amount of CO2 added to the atmosphere. This worrying research by NASA using the GRACE satellite shows that we are currently losing more ice than has been projected in our two largest ice sheets.
Ice on land does not melt as fast as that in the sea and the worry is that the glaciers which terminate in the sea are melting from the underside even faster. At this stage this underside melting does not add to sea level rise, but these ice shelves hold back the massive inland glaciers from slipping into the sea with catastrophic consequences to sea level rise.
Ice on land does not melt as fast as that in the sea and the worry is that the glaciers which terminate in the sea are melting from the underside even faster. At this stage this underside melting does not add to sea level rise, but these ice shelves hold back the massive inland glaciers from slipping into the sea with catastrophic consequences to sea level rise.
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