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## Ice Loss
#### Ice loss is occuring rapidly on both poles
* [European Environmental Agency 16](https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/greenland-ice-sheet-3/assessment)
* **Greenland Ice Loss** from 1992 to 2015 was **3,600 Gigatonnes** (3,500,000,000,000,000 Kilograms)
* Contributed to global **sea level rise** by approximately **10 mm**;
* **Antarctica loss** is **1,500 Gigatonnes** (1,500,000,000,000,000 Kilograms)
* Corresponds to approximately a **5 mm** global sea level rise since 1992.
* Model projections suggest **further declines** of the polar ice sheets in the future, but the uncertainties are large.
* The melting of the polar ice sheets is estimated to contribute up to **50 cm** of global sea level rise during the 21st century.
![](https://github.com/NB419/source-library/blob/master/images/climate-ice.png?raw=true)