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Lead scientists Andres Shepherd says Antarctica is melting at an alarming rate.
An international team of ice experts studying Antarctica says it has been melting at an alarming rate over the past five years.
According to the study published in the journal Nature, from 1992 to 2011, Antarctica lost nearly 84 billion tons of ice per year. And from 2012 to 2017, the melting rate increased to over 241 billion tons per year.
Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth, and nearly 220 billion tons are melting into the ocean every year.
Leeds University Andrew Shepherd, a leading Antarctic investigator, speaks to CapeTalk’s Kieno Kammies about their findings.
Over the past five years the rate of ice loss has tripled to 30% of total sea level rise and this makes us not too concerned about sea level rise today, but it will be in the near future.
Andrew Shepered, chief scientist at the University of Leeds
The rate at which ice melts is a key indicator of climate change, Shephered says.
To hear the rest of the conversation, listen below:
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