More on the big melt

If you didn't know, the world we live on is warming.  This is causing the ice of the mountains and the polar regions to melt.  

It's not news, it's true, and it's not going to stop just because a new Presidential administration wants to stop talking about how it's happening and that it's not going to stop. 

And the ice is not going to stop melting unless it gets colder. 

This is what's happening now:

Why Melting Glaciers Are Losing 273 Billion Tons of Ice Yearly

"From 2000 to 2023, the global glacier mass loss totals 6,542 billion tons. This loss contributed 18 mm to global sea-level rise at an annual rate of 273 billion tons or 0.75 millimeters yearly. With this, glaciers are currently the second-largest contributor to global sea-level rise, after the warming of the ocean and before the contributions from the Greenland Ice Sheet, changes in land water storage, and the Antarctic Ice Sheet."

Here's the reference (also at the end of the article):

Zemp M, Jakob L, Dussaillant I, et al. Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023. Nature. 2025:1-7. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z

Let's finish this blog post with the final paragraph of the article:

" “Our observations and recent modeling studies indicate that glacier mass loss will continue and possibly accelerate until the end of this century”, says UZH glaciologist and [Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise] GlaMBIE project manager Samuel Nussbaumer. “This underpins the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s call for urgent and concrete actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and associated warming to limit the impact of glacier wastage on local geohazards, regional freshwater availability, and global sea-level rise”, he concludes."