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Alaska’s glaciers are now losing 75 billion tons of ice every year
In a new study, scientists with the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and several other institutions report a staggering finding: Glaciers of the United States’ largest — and only Arctic — state, Alaska, have lost 75 gigatons (a gigaton is a billion metric tons) of ice per year from 1994 through 2013. For comparison, that’s roughly half of a recent estimate for ice loss for all of Antarctica (159 billion metric tons). It takes 360 gigatons of ice to lead to one millimeter of sea level rise...
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...while ice levels in the Atlantic are at a record high.
Not good,i hope it is not so warm in Alaska this year.
I think I remember someone here saying that it was really warm in April and May.