Gains Of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater Than Losses: NASA Study

Click here to read the article Alyssa Navarro of TECH TIMES. The researchers do worry that in the future the losses might start to outweigh the gains. But at least for now, things are not getting worse. Excerpts:

"A recent study conducted by NASA reveals that the mass gains of Antarctic ice sheet are enough to outweigh the increasing losses in the region's diminishing glaciers.

The new data offers previously unrecorded gains in Antarctica, scientists say, but it challenges the conclusions of other reports such as the 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) study. The IPCC's earlier report said that the continent is continuously losing land ice.

According to the new NASA research published in the Journal of Glaciology, the Antarctic ice sheet accumulated a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice per year in the period covering 1992 to 2001, but it decelerated to 82 billion tons of ice per year in the 2003 to 2008 period."

"Researchers also found that the thickening of ice in the eastern region of Antarctica has remained steady from 1992 to 2008 at 200 billion tons per year, while the losses in the western region as well as in the Antarctic Peninsula skyrocketed to 65 billion tons per year."