Nearly 70% of the Earth’s fresh water is frozen in vast continental ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica which together store the equivalent of about 65 metres of sea level rise.
by Chris Stokes and Guy Paxman, Daily MaverickGlobal warming putting world’s biggest ice sheet at greater risk than scientists previously thought by Chris Stokes and Guy Paxman, Daily Maverick August 13, 2022 The eastern two-thirds of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet so large that if it melted the sea would rise by 52 metres. Most scientists had once thought this ice sheet was largely invulnerable to climate change, but not anymore.
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