Climate change causing glaciers to lose more than 7 trillion tons of ice since 2000

Climate change is becoming a bigger issue. This largely anthropogenic crisis is accelerating the melting of mountain glaciers across the globe, according to a study published in the journal Nature. Let us understand.

Glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons per year from 2000 to 2011. But that pace quickened to about 346 billion tons annually in the next decade, according to the study. The melt has accelerated further in recent years.

Glaciers lost a record 604 billion tons of ice in 2023, the last year analysed. It has been estimated that in all, glaciers have lost more than 7 trillion tons of ice since 2000. The study used an international effort to reach the results.The thing that more and more people should start becoming concerned about is that glaciers are indeed retreating and disappearing – and that the rate of that loss seems to be accelerating. Today, Central Europe’s glaciers are 39% smaller than they used to be in 2000.