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Environment Counts | IPCC 5th Assessment Report affirms increasing ice loss in the Antarctic, Greenland :

Published by on Tuesday, January 24th, 2017

Published
by geoff
on 2013-09-29

The average rate of ice loss from the Antarctic ice sheet has likely increased

Period Ice loss Error bars
1992–2001 30 Gt/yr –37 to 97
2002–2011 147 Gt/yr 72 to 221

These losses are mainly from the northern Antarctic Peninsula and the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica.

The average rate of ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet has very likely substantially increased

Period Ice loss Error bars
1992–2001 34 Gt/yr –6 to 74
2002–2011 215 Gt/yr 157 to 274

The average rate of ice loss from glaciers around the world, excluding glaciers on the periphery of the ice sheets is very likely

Period Ice loss Error bars
1971−2009 226 Gt/yr 91 to 361
1993−2009 275 Gt/yr 140 to 410

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

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