Ice is melting faster than ever before. (Getty)
Earth’s ice is melting at a rate 57% higher than it was three decades ago – and 28 trillion tons of ice have already melted away, new research has warned. According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, average summer temperatures have climbed by between 0.9°C and 1.4°C since the Late Nineties, raising the average global temperature by an average of 0.73°C over the same period. For the northern hemisphere, the rise in temperatures has furthermore been 282.6 times greater than for the southern hemisphere sub-regions. The 9 billion tons of ice that emerged from snow at high altitudes reached its maximum annual return in March 2016 and is expected to melt away completely by August this year. Experts call for urgent action on global warming after 2003′s record-breaking El Niño climate pattern disrupted the yearly cycle of winter and summer cyclones. There hasn't been a single storm since late August/early September. Writing in The Independent, Amory B. Lovins, Professor Emeritus at Oklahoma State University, breaks down what this means for mankind. He outlines "four different paths" that might lead to widespread chronic coastal and other flooding. Polar ice free-zone: On the Far side of the fringe from Antarctica Oceanic uptake rate: Unlike the U.S., Antarctica has little sensor mountain coverage Litter water: Ice from the ten million years before the dinosaurs entered the water flew to dry land or dumped in the ocean Acid Pebbles: Dealing with scattered explosive entertainment meltwater Tundra crisis: Cold, drought and dramatic changes caused by climate change Hibernia: Forcing warmer regions to fight record high Snow belts: Reduced solar forcing Palm Galaxy: Polluted dust removed from sky due to warming of Antarctic clouds
"Global warming continues apace at the full throttle with disastrous global consequences."
Hundreds of snow-covered peaks have been swallowed up in a rapid expansion of ever encroaching deserts in the Middle East, during a 10-year period which also saw a record heatwave engulf large swathes of northern Africa and a hot 2015 in Australia.
In 2015 alone, warm, dry conditions combined with global warming caused a massive Australian drought, often referred to as the worst in a century. Nearly 200,000 square miles of grassland have vanished after a dry season in the Atacama desert in southern Chile, and extreme heatwaves in South America this year were among the world's deadliest in modern times.
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The NASA satellite image, blacked out by the green and blue, overlayed on top of the Antarctica image, shows signals that due to global warming, huge swaths of the Antarctic
Earth’s ice is melting at a rate 57% higher than it was three decades ago – and 28 trillion tons of ice have already melted away, new research has warned. According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, average summer temperatures have climbed by between 0.9°C and 1.4°C since the Late Nineties, raising the average global temperature by an average of 0.73°C over the same period. For the northern hemisphere, the rise in temperatures has furthermore been 282.6 times greater than for the southern hemisphere sub-regions. The 9 billion tons of ice that emerged from snow at high altitudes reached its maximum annual return in March 2016 and is expected to melt away completely by August this year. Experts call for urgent action on global warming after 2003′s record-breaking El Niño climate pattern disrupted the yearly cycle of winter and summer cyclones. There hasn't been a single storm since late August/early September. Writing in The Independent, Amory B. Lovins, Professor Emeritus at Oklahoma State University, breaks down what this means for mankind. He outlines "four different paths" that might lead to widespread chronic coastal and other flooding. Polar ice free-zone: On the Far side of the fringe from Antarctica Oceanic uptake rate: Unlike the U.S., Antarctica has little sensor mountain coverage Litter water: Ice from the ten million years before the dinosaurs entered the water flew to dry land or dumped in the ocean Acid Pebbles: Dealing with scattered explosive entertainment meltwater Tundra crisis: Cold, drought and dramatic changes caused by climate change Hibernia: Forcing warmer regions to fight record high Snow belts: Reduced solar forcing Palm Galaxy: Polluted dust removed from sky due to warming of Antarctic clouds
"Global warming continues apace at the full throttle with disastrous global consequences."
Hundreds of snow-covered peaks have been swallowed up in a rapid expansion of ever encroaching deserts in the Middle East, during a 10-year period which also saw a record heatwave engulf large swathes of northern Africa and a hot 2015 in Australia.
In 2015 alone, warm, dry conditions combined with global warming caused a massive Australian drought, often referred to as the worst in a century. Nearly 200,000 square miles of grassland have vanished after a dry season in the Atacama desert in southern Chile, and extreme heatwaves in South America this year were among the world's deadliest in modern times.
Scroll down for video
The NASA satellite image, blacked out by the green and blue, overlayed on top of the Antarctica image, shows signals that due to global warming, huge swaths of the Antarctic
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