Moving Glacially
17 hours ago
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
Gotta say, the endless drumbeat of climate alarmism is pretty boring. The latest salvo is from the Associated Press, with the headline Climate change is shrinking glaciers faster than ever, with 7 trillion tons lost since 2000.”
Now that sounds like a seriously huge loss. I mean, it is TRILLIONS of tons lost in a quarter century.
Being a suspicious kind of fellow, I went to the underlying study in Nature magazine entitled Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023.
And in that study, I find the following:
Glaciers separate from the continental ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica covered a global area of approximately 706,000 km2 around the year 2000, with an estimated total volume of 158,170 ± 41,030 km3.
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Here we show in an intercomparison exercise that glaciers worldwide lost 273 ± 16 gigatonnes in mass annually from 2000 to 2023.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/23/moving-glacially/
