For 2012, produced warm oceans, loss of ice in Antarctica of 76 billion tons per year. Since then, there has been a strong increase with the continent 219 billion tonnes of ice per year lost between 2012 and 2017. This increased the level of the sea each year is 0.2 millimeters. Over the last century the sea level in a total of approximately twenty centimeters increased, so in the new research to read.
Read also the Oceans warm faster than expectedThe situation threatens to get worse, warns Eric Rignot, chairman of the Earth System Science at the University of California. “The sea level rise in the coming centuries with a few meters rise”, sounds. “We are now experiencing the ice six times faster melt than during the seventies in the same period”.