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IPCC report on the Ocean and Cryosphere
September 29 , 2019
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- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented the special report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate Context.
Key Findings
- The global mean sea level had risen by 16 cm between 1902 and 2015. The rate of increase had doubled in the last one decade.
- The sea levels were rising because of thermal expansion of ocean waters due to rising temperatures as well as due to melting of glaciers and polar ice.
- Examples
- Greenland ice sheet – Between 2006 and 2015 lost ice-mass at an average rate of 278 billion tonnes every year.
- Antarctic ice sheet - lost a mass of 155 billion tonnes every year between 2006 and 2015.
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