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Greenland's ice sheet has lost 11B,000,000 lbs of water since 1972

• ForHackernews 8y ago
  Note that I wrote it out as 11,000,000,000,000,000 (11 quadrillion) in the title, but HN converted it to "11B,000,000" so 11-million-billions?
• core-questions 8y ago
  So? Are sea levels actually any higher because of it, or what?
  • ForHackernews 8y ago
    Have you tried reading articles before you snark about them? > A new study finds that the Greenland Ice Sheet added a quarter inch of water to global sea levels in just the past eight years.
• baruchthescribe 8y ago
  Really? The Danish Meteorological Institute is recording the surface mass budget at record levels. https://www.iceagenow.info/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget-far-far-higher-than-average/ https://www.iceagenow.info/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-...
  • ForHackernews 8y ago
    That looks like a sketchy denialist source to me. I don't trust it to accurately summarize scientific results.
    • yorwba 8y ago
      The article it references is pretty clear on that: "The ice sheet also loses ice by the breaking off, or “calving”, of icebergs from its edge, but that is not included in this type of budget. As a result, the SMB will always be positive – that is, the ice sheet gains more snow than the ice it loses."