What happens when all the Ice Melts?
Thought for the day.
A friend sent me this lovely picture taken by Thomas Vijayan that won Silver in the nature photojournalism category of the World Nature Photography awards.1
Austfonna ice cap - Svalbard, Norway. Check out the other stunning photos.
See sea levels are rising.2
The Guardian article refers to the latest GlaMBIE Team publication in Nature.3
Here is Figure 1 from the paper.
Here are the measurements showing Gigatonnes of Ice melt in the project locations.
Some readers will focus on the Blue. Please click to enlarge.
Cumulative and annual glacier mass changes since 2000 for the 19 glacier regions (hydrological years) and aggregated to global sums (calendar years). Cumulative mass changes (left y axis, Gt) are shown as black curves, with values for mean annual change rate (Gt yr−1) and cumulative change (Gt) for the entire period given in the bottom left corner. Annual mass changes (right y axis, m w.e. yr−1) are coloured in blue and red for years with positive and negative mass changes, respectively. Uncertainties are given as 95% confidence intervals.
It is noted that the left y axis differs for each subplot whereas the right y axis is the same for all regions.
Peer review reports are available for download.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/mar/01/the-world-nature-photography-awards-2025-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/19/melting-glaciers-cause-almost-2cm-of-sea-level-rise-this-century-study-reveals
The GlaMBIE Team. Michael Zemp, Livia Jakob, Inés Dussaillant, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Noel Gourmelen, Sophie Dubber, Geruo A, Sahra Abdullahi, Liss Marie Andreassen, Etienne Berthier, Atanu Bhattacharya, Alejandro Blazquez, Laura F. Boehm Vock, Tobias Bolch, Jason Box, Matthias H. Braun, Fanny Brun, Eric Cicero, William Colgan, Nicolas Eckert, Daniel Farinotti, Caitlyn Florentine, Dana Floricioiu, Alex Gardner, Christopher Harig, Javed Hassan, Romain Hugonnet, Matthias Huss, Tómas Jóhannesson, Chia-Chun Angela Liang, Chang-Qing Ke, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Owen King, Marin Kneib, Lukas Krieger, Fabien Maussion, Enrico Mattea, Robert McNabb, Brian Menounos, Evan Miles, Geir Moholdt, Johan Nilsson, Finnur Pálsson, Julia Pfeffer, Livia Piermattei, Stephen Plummer, Andreas Richter, Ingo Sasgen, Lilian Schuster, Thorsten Seehaus, Xiaoyi Shen, Christian Sommer, Tyler Sutterley, Désirée Treichler, Isabella Velicogna, Bert Wouters, Harry Zekollari and Whyjay Zheng. February 2025. Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08545-z
see levels? sea levels?
Watch Dr. Willy Soon, astrophysicist, about the warming scam. Yes some ice is melting. But at other places ice is forming. There has always been climate change, it is called weather.
If you see Obama and co buy property at the oceanside, do you still believe in rising sea levels?