East Antarctica has sometimes been a focus of attention for people who deny the science of global warming. East Antarctica, which makes up two-thirds of the continent, is a remote region of an already remote location, where data is scarcer because there are fewer measurement stations, Dr. Koppes said. To get around those problems in this study, more than 80 researchers from around the world collected data from about a dozen different satellite measurements dating to the early 1990s. “We used different satellite missions and techniques because the various approaches we have at arriving at this number have different strengths and weaknesses,” Dr. Shepherd said. Antarctica is, on balance, losing its ice sheets and raising the world’s sea levels.

Source: New York Times June 13, 2018 17:06 UTC