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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
I am just going by that article that I gave the author of. He said 13% per decade, so that would mean that Antarctica has lost about 50% of its ice mass since 1970. We have ALL seen videos of large parts of the ice mass calving off into the water. There is some logic to the large loss of sea ice - around the world sea level has increased rapidly in the last 10 years. The last year recorded was some VERY large amount. If I remember correctly it was 1/2 of an inch rise (don't hold me to that, I don't want to try to look it up again). And Antarctica melting away and losing mass is also consistent with the increased CO2 in the ocean killing coral. And the CO2 in the upper atmosphere reflecting HEAT back to Earth.
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With a SIMPLE question to Google," Is Antarctica ice decreasing?", I got to NASA (. gov) which has this information. Antarctica is melting at an average rate of about 150 BILLION tons per year. Greenland is even worse - losing about 270 BILLION tons per year, adding to sea level. NASA satellites show that the ice sheets in BOTH Greenland and Antarctica have been losing mass since 2002.