The 1990s tip of iceberg melting in Antarctica and Greenland is now six times more, confirms new research. The research team of 89 international climatologists studied data from 11 satellites said that 400 million people would be at risk of coastal flooding due to the rapid rise of this melting. Published in the Nature journal, the research findings are in line with that of IPCC or International Panel for Climatic Change and cause worry among the scientists and people now.
Out of the many research papers published, Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018 is the major one. The IMBIE or the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise team is credited for research of this published paper. IMBIE is lead by Erik Ivins, who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Andrew Shepherd from the University of Leeds.
They found that the total loss of ice is 7 trillion tons or 6.4 trillion metric tons in Greenland and Antarctica put together. Antarctica's all loss of ice and half of Greenland's ice loss is only due to the warming ocean waters that melt the glacier's edges. They melt both the region's ice sheets to rush towards the sea.