Global changes may have effects that impact directly on the Antarctic environment and its fauna and

flora. Global warming may contribute to break-up ice-shelves causing loss of habitat for animals
dependent on the ice-shelf as well as the effect of increasing sea level on low-lying regions in the rest of
the world. Experts had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occurring:
loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves. Melting glaciers add to
rising sea levels, which in turn increases coastal erosion and elevates storm surge as warming air and
ocean temperatures create more frequent and intense coastal storms like hurricanes and typhoons. As
the Earth continues to warm, there will be reduced snow cover and less sea ice in these critical regions,
which alters the pressure and temperature gradients of the regions at the boundary of the polar vortex.
In extreme cases, the polar vortex weakens or collapses as a result. Rising global temperatures cause the
ice in Antarctica to melt, which in turn, causes the level of the oceans to increase around the world. This
is known as sea-level rise. Glaciers are vanishing due to rapidly warming temperatures. ... As the Earth
warms, the melt line moves upwards so that the glacier melts faster and faster at the bottom,
shortening the glacier and reducing its mass. Earth's warming climate means that overall Greenland
loses more ice than it gains each year. Warmer temperatures mean more melt days. During summer,
temperatures are warm enough for ice on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet to melt in many places.
Warmer temperatures have lead to more days of melting ice.

How much ice is Antarctica losing per year?

Ice mass loss since 2002, as measured by NASA's GRACE and GRACE Follow-On satellite projects, was
149 billion metric tons per year.

How much ice does Greenland lose each year?

The Greenland ice sheet's mass has rapidly declined in the last several years due to surface melting and
iceberg calving. Research based on satellite data indicates that between 2002 and 2020, Greenland shed
an average of 279 billion metric tons of ice per year, adding to global sea level rise.

the altered climatic patterns of the arctic region

Greenland's ice sheet has an area of 1.7 million square kilometers, an average thickness of 2.3
kilometers (1.4 miles), and holds 7 percent of the world's freshwater. Glaciers on Greenland's coast
move ice from the interior of the island to the North Atlantic, where they break off as icebergs and
eventually melt into the ocean. Since 2000, Greenland has lost over 4,000 billion tons of ice. If
Greenland were to melt completely (which could take thousands of years), global sea level would
increase by up to 7 meters (23 feet).

Forty-four percent of Antarctica's coastline is made up of ice shelves — thick slabs of ice attached to the
shore, and extending out over the ocean. Ice shelves range in thickness from about 200-2,500 meters
(656-8,202 feet), and can persist for thousands of years. At their seaward edge, ice shelves periodically
calve icebergs, some the size of a small U.S. state. Because they are exposed to both warming air above
and warming ocean below, ice shelves respond more quickly than ice sheets or glaciers to rising
temperatures.

According to several studies spanning several decades, ice shelves are thinning at a faster rate because
of warmer ocean water. Geothermal heat (heat from underground) leftover from 34-plus million years
ago does not contribute to this thinning, its effect being less than one five-hundredth of a 75-watt
lightbulb.

The mean annual air temperature of the Antarctic Peninsula has increased by nearly 3°C in the region in
the last 50 years, five times the global mean, the only comparable regions are in the Arctic. 
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Global changes may have effects that impact directly on the Antarctic environment. Global
climate change are now occurring: loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more
severe heat waves. As the Earth continues to warm, there will be decreased snow cover and less
sea ice in these critical regions, which revise the pressure and temperature gradients of the
regions at the border of the polar vortex. In utmost cases, the polar vortex weakens or collapses
as an outcome. Increasing global temperatures cause the ice in Antarctica to melt, which in turn,
causes the level of the oceans to rise up around the world. Glaciers are disappearing due to
rapidly warming temperatures. As the Earth warms, the melt line moves upwards so that the
glacier melts faster and faster at the extremity, lessening the glacier and reducing its mass.
Earth's warming weather means that overall Greenland loses more ice than it gains each year.
Warmer temperatures indicate more melt days. During summer, temperatures are warm enough
for ice on the facet of the Greenland ice sheet to melt in many places. Warmer temperatures have
lead to more days of melting ice.

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Over the last couple decades, Greenland is melting faster than it has in at least 350 years.  As the
climate warms, and heat waves become increasingly supreme, vital melting events are even
happening at the island's generally frigid summit. As climate change accelerates, temperatures in
the Arctic are heating up twice as fast as the rest of the planet. According to experts, the rainfall
on Greenland's crest is just the first of many impacts global warming could have on this region
— and accordingly, around the world. All the ice in Greenland melted, the global sea level
would leap by about 6 meters, and although this is unexpected to happen on any sort of
predictable timescale, scientists have warned that the world's biggest island is reaching a tipping
point due to the pressures exerted upon it by global heating Antarctica has manifest some of the
most notable effects of climate change so far, the result of melting ice on global sea-levels makes
it of considerable importance, it also serves as somewhere to perceive effects away from other
human influences. The polar regions are extremely sensitive to small rises in the yearly average
temperature, they are sometimes referred to as "the canary in the coalmine" in that they show
changes long before they can be seen elsewhere in the world. The temperature of the rest of
Antarctica shows indications of rising at a slower rate.

If all the ice covering Antarctica , Greenland, and in mountain glaciers around the world were to
melt, sea level would rise about 70 meters. The ocean would enclose all the coastal cities. And
land area would shrink outstandingly. Ice actually flows down valleys like rivers of water .