Ice equivalent to the weight of 4 trillion cows melted in glaciers in 10 years, study reveals

A study has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters. In this study, scientists analyzed the data of CryoSat. After this, he revealed that between 2010 and 2020, a total of 2,720 gigatons of ice melted in glaciers around the world.

The worst effect of climate change is on the frozen ice on the glaciers . According to a new study, glaciers around the world are melting very fast. A lot of snow is flowing from them. However, it is very difficult to get an accurate estimate of the amount of snow flowing from glaciers around the world.

But according to the European Space Agency (ESA), scientists have done this by using the CryoSat satellite to find out. In this, the fact came out that in just 10 years, the glaciers around the world have shrunk by 2 percent. All this happened because of the high air temperature. This figure is worrying.

2,720 gigatons of ice melted in the glacier in 10 years

A study has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters. In this study, scientists analyzed the data of CryoSat. After this, he revealed that between 2010 and 2020, a total of 2,720 gigatons of ice melted in glaciers around the world. This figure of ice melting in 10 years is a scary sign for the future when the earth is getting warmer. Scientists are constantly warning about the increase in the heat of the earth and the increase in the sea level.

Snow equivalent to the weight of 4 trillion cows melted

To understand this perspective if you consider the standard weight of a cow is 680 kg. In this case, the weight of 2,720 gigatons of ice would be equal to the weight of 4 trillion cows. In the study, scientists not only estimated the huge amount of ice melting, but also demonstrated that higher temperatures were responsible for 89 percent of the ice melting.

According to the United Nations, about two billion people, or think of it as one out of every four people on Earth, live in areas where glaciers and seasonal snow supply water. It has been told in the study that the melting of the glacier can have serious effects on a large part of the world's population.

There will be a huge rise in sea water level

The massive melting of glaciers will not only reduce the supply of potable water in a large part of the world. Apart from this, due to the lack of glaciers, there can be a rapid increase in the water level of the sea. This will not only affect the lives of the people, but it can also have a bad effect on the livelihood of the people.