{"id":159307,"date":"2026-10-26T10:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159307"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:19:46","slug":"why-chinas-new-estimate-on-greenland-ice-loss-speed-is-55-lower-than-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159307","title":{"rendered":"Why China\u2019s new estimate on Greenland ice loss speed is 55% lower than America\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese researchers have created a new model to convert satellite surface elevation data for the Greenland Ice Sheet into a detailed estimate of how much ice it has lost in recent decades.<br \/>\nUsing satellite altimetry data covering 2002 to 2023, they found that the ice sheet lost an average of about 120 gigatonnes (264.5 trillion lbs) of mass per year.<br \/>\nThis figure is considerably lower than the widely cited figure reached by Nasa, which previously estimated Greenland\u2019s annual loss to be nearly 270&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3372129\/why-chinas-new-estimate-greenland-ice-loss-speed-55-lower-americas\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese researchers have created a new model to convert satellite surface elevation data for the Greenland Ice Sheet into a detailed estimate of how&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}