The European Space Agency (ESA) highlighted on Tuesday that analysis of data, much of its gathered from ESA satellites, had established that the loss of mass by the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets was matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case scenarios. (ESA is separate from, and independent of, the European Union [EU], although it works with the EU on some programmes.) The analysis was carried out by an international team of scientists from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and the UK’s University of Leeds, and has been published in “Nature Climate Change”. The team also belongs to the continuing Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE), which was set up in 2011 and is co-funded by ESA and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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