230 Gigatonnes per year average over the past 10 years was exceeded by 40% the past 12 months. The Chesapeake Bay holds 80 Gigatonnes so it's 30 Chesapeake Bay's worth of water added to the oceans over 10 years from Greenland alone.
Stories like this one from MARCH 17, 2014 go unnoticed.
GREENLAND ICE SHEET LOSES IT'S LAST GRIP
The northeast Greenland ice sheet lost more than 10 billion tons of ice per year since 2003, according to the study, published March 16 in the journal Nature Climate Change. Once thought immune to global warming's effects, melting in northeast Greenland could significantly boost Greenland's contribution sea level rise
THE ANTARCTIC
Meanwhile way down south in Antarctica the news is also dire despite what seemed to be a brief respite over the past couple of years when snowfall increased the ice pack in some areas.
