“Hair-raising” study finds glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate
Stephen Leahy
Thursday, April 29th 2021, 1:55 pm - Water shortages in Canada and many other parts of the world are possible as glaciers rapidly recede.
The world’s glaciers are in an accelerating melt down according to the first ever study of all 220,000 glaciers. In the past two decades these mountain glaciers have lost an average of 267 billions tons of ice per year. That’s enough to submerge all of southern Ontario from Windsor to Cornwall and up to Algonquin Park under two meters of water every year.
This does not include ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.