Select statistics on global melting icecaps and sea level rise 1990-2017
The rate at which Earth is losing its icecaps is accelerating. In the 2010s, the average rate of loss was 475 billion metric tons of ice per year, which is significantly higher than the 1990s rate of 81 billion metric tons of ice per year. The estimates for global sea level rise by 2100 is around 0.5 meters.