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Re:Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years by Tepix on Thursday June 14, 2018 @04:22AM (#17310221)
From TFA: "Globally, sea levels are rising by about 3mm a year."

That's really, really fast.

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Re:Antarctica loses three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years by southern_cross on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:48PM (#17313645)
It's been a while since I did the math, but IIRC this amounts to maybe half of the historical average rise since the end of the last ice age, where things were at times moving really, really fast. So not really that fast at all in the big picture. BTW, there's no particular reason to believe that this natural rise ever came to a complete halt either, AFAIK.
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