Ice caps melting

Global warming and a huge storm are blamed for the fastest decrease in sea coverage ever seen

An article in the Guardian reports that polar ice caps are melting six times faster than they were in the 1990s. Projections and estimates from previous years are now on track with worst-case scenarios.

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Greenland's ice sheet melted at its most rapid rate of the summer on Thursday.

Melting of the 3km-thick ice cap is one of the biggest contributors to sea level rise but can be halted

The polar ice caps and the Greenland ice sheet are melting six times faster than they were in the 1990s. The high melt rate corresponds to the “worst case scenario” model for global warming set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and means that without sweeping curbs on greenhouse gas emissions, the planet will see a 17-centimetre rise in sea level in just 80 years, putting about 400 million people at risk of annual coastal flooding.

A report released last week shows that the world’s two largest ice sheets are melting faster than ever previously recorded, losing about 500 cubic kilometers of ice per year. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany conducted research using mapping technology and the European Space Agency’s CryoStat-2 satellite. The research team measured over 200 …