390 Billion Tons of Snow and Ice Melt Each Year As Globe Warms, Study Suggests (usatoday.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from USA Today, highlighting the key findings from a new study published in the journal Nature: Thanks to global warming, our planet's glaciers continue to melt away, losing up to 390 billion tons of ice and snow per year, a new study suggests. The largest losses were glaciers in Alaska, followed by the melting ice fields in southern South America and glaciers in the Arctic. Glaciers could almost disappear in some mountain ranges by the end of the century, including those in the U.S. The world's seas have risen about an inch in the past 50 years just due to glacier melt alone, according to the study. Since 1961, the world has lost 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, the study reported. Melted, that's enough to cover the lower 48 U.S. states in about 4 feet of water.

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So, alaska is worse than Canada.

[WindBourne]

It appears that up in the arctic, that Alaska is losing the most, followed by western Canada, and then it just keep flowing around, with eastern Russia losing the least. So, where is Alaska getting all that warming from? It can not be the lower 48 since in the upper northern hemisphere, it will move north east. When will the far left acknowledge where the large CO2 amounts are coming from and change them.