Lees, not, very much NOT to my surprise, did not mention EAST Antarctica glaciers sliding into the sea.

I think Lees is more dishonest than Booby who is a dupe of Dubyne.

Zack Labe @ZLabe 7h7 hours ago More

Above average sea surface temperatures (SST) so far this year in the Bering Sea. Band of higher SST anomalies in the last month results from the lack of sea ice cover.

[Daily SST data from @NOAA OISSTv2]

The research used satellite techniques to infer changes to glacier grounding lines based on changes in the height of the glacier's surface.

Scanning one-third of Antarctica's marine-based glaciers along a roughly 10,000-mile (16,000 km) stretch of coastline, the work presents a more comprehensive look than other studies of Antarctic glaciers, which have tended to focus on grounding lines in just one key region.

"We were able to quantify more or less all around Antarctica," said Hannes Konrad, the lead author of the research. Konrad works at the University of Leeds in Britain, along with a number of co-authors of the study. Other authors worked at University College London.

The research found that from 2010 through 2016, about 80 square miles (200 square km) per year of ice is being lifted off of the seafloor and going afloat as grounding lines retreat. That's about four times the size of Manhattan every year.

At the same time, the 10.7 percent of Antarctic grounding lines were retreating at a rate faster than 25 meters per year, which the study takes as a benchmark because that rate of retreat is believed to have occurred at the end of the last ice age.

Just 1.9 percent of Antarctic grounding lines were advancing faster than 25 meters per year.

The sea-level implications of the research are troubling, if not direct - researchers cannot precisely quantify sea-level rise just based on the retreat of grounding lines, although they are certainly related.

"We find that 10 percent of the Antarctica ice sheet significantly retreating, but we can't somehow extrapolate sea level rates that come from that," Konrad said.

"But to say 10 percent of Antarctica, this massive ice body, is retreating, still should be some sign of warning. It's large."