Opinion: I’m a climate scientist – this is what Antarctica’s heatwaves really means for the...

"Across the whole continent, ice loss from glaciers and ice shelves has added around 14mm to global sea level rise since 1979, with 63 per cent of that coming from the West Antarctic ice sheet. And this is happening at an accelerating rate – the amount of ice lost from Antarctica in 2009-2017 was six times higher than in 1979-89. This is especially keenly felt in the West Antarctic, which contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by several metres".