{"id":40518,"date":"2019-01-16T17:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=40518"},"modified":"2019-01-16T17:53:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:23:47","slug":"antarctica-is-losing-ice-6-times-faster-today-than-in-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/antarctica-is-losing-ice-6-times-faster-today-than-in-1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica is losing ice 6 times faster today than in 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/environment\/global-warming\/antarctica-ice-melting-increased-by-280-in-last-16-years-study-says\/articleshow\/67537387.cms\"><strong>Antarctica is losing ice 6 times faster today than in 1980s<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Study observation:\u00a0 <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In 1980s, Rate of Ice loss was 40 billion metric tons\/ year which has increased to 252 billion metric tons\/year since 2009<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Rate of Ice melting is 15% higher than last year<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica Ice coverage studied in three parts: Eastern, Western and Peninsular Antarctica<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rate of Ice Melting in West Antarctica and Antarctica Peninsula accounts for 4\/5th of total Antarctica ice loss<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Eastern Antarctica&#8221; which had been considered Stable (little or no ice loss\/gain) is now losing ice at rate of 51 billion metric tons\/year<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Study Warning:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Observed Ice melting in East Antarctica along with Western and Peninsular Antarctica could lead to <strong>sea level rise more than 10 feet in next 100 year<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Increased rate of Ice melting is <strong>key indicator of Human-Induced Climate Change<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Consequences of Sea Level Rise:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inundation of small islands developing states raising issue of <strong>climate refugees<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saline water intrusion into fresh water aquifers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Change in ocean linked atmospheric circulation impacting <strong>precipitation pattern across globe<\/strong> Indian Monsoon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>India&#8217;s Concern and Effort:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Concern: India is vulnerable to coastal inundation (7500km coastline) and erratic monsoon led precipitation<\/li>\n<li>Effort: India has <strong>two research bases Maitri and Bharati<\/strong> (under National Center for Polar and Ocean Research) in Antarctica for multi-disciplinary studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctica is losing ice 6 times faster today than in 1980s Important Facts: Study observation:\u00a0 In 1980s, Rate of Ice loss was 40 billion metric tons\/ year which has increased to 252 billion metric tons\/year since 2009 Rate of Ice melting is 15% higher than last year Antarctica Ice coverage studied in three parts: Eastern,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/antarctica-is-losing-ice-6-times-faster-today-than-in-1980s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antarctica is losing ice 6 times faster today than in 1980s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704699312},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}