RAUL LAZARONI

ZAHARIE ANDREI ICECAP

STEFAN DRAGOIU
• Ice sheet, or Inlandsis, is the mass of ice
that covers large portions in polar regions or
the upper parts of high mountains, and exceeds
the surface of 50,000 km2 thus, also known as
continental glacier.
• The only ice sheets today are found in Antarctica, Greenland
and the islands of the Arctic Ocean. Vegetation is missing there,
due to the absence of a soil layer.
• Some fear a collapse - now apparently irreversible - of the ice
sheet, a process that would take place independently of the
future evolution of Earth's climate
• These ice shelves support ice farther inland, acting
as a cork that stops them from flowing into the ocean.
Even in the most optimistic scenario of warming of 1.5
C° above pre-industrial levels, the ice would melt
three times faster in this century than in the last
century.​
• If the ice sheet were to melt completely, global
average sea levels would rise by more than one metre.
The researchers ran simulations on Britain's national
supercomputer to assess the rise in ocean temperatures
under different warming scenarios, based on a single
model.
• Major sea-level rise from the melting
Greenland ice sheet is now inevitable,
scientists have found, even if the burning of
fossil fuels causing the current climate
crisis were to end overnight
Scientists have observed, since the early 1990s, an
acceleration of ice melting in this area of Antarctica as a
result of climate change caused by human activity.
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