'We have lost this glacier melting game and sea level rise game,' Professor Petteri Taalas tells Sky News.
The British Antarctic Survey has released its new maps and they are a stark visual depiction of the retreat of ice at our poles.
Just as stark is the warning from the secretary general of the United Nations' World Meteorological Organisation, Professor Petteri Taalas.will never return, remarking that the planet has"lost this glacier melting game and sea level rise game". He said:"Thanks to an already high concentration of carbon dioxide, we have lost this glacier melting game and sea level rise game.
"It may continue for the coming thousands of years because the natural removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is very slow. "There's no return to the climate that we used to have in the last century, so that's gone... and we will live with these consequences and higher temperatures."Extract of Antarctic map showing sea ice extents for Ronne and Brunt ice shelves
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