The Antarctic Ice Shelf Has Been increasing Since 2009 and now is growing 108 billion tons per year (Updated 2025)

Scientists have made a shocking find in Antarctica that makes climate change funded scientists very angry.

Tongji University researchers in Shanghai found that the frozen continent suddenly stopped shrinking and has actually gained record amounts of ice in the last few years. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) mission and its successor, GRACE-FO (GRACE Follow-On) satellites have observed a rise in the ice mass across the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

The study found that from 2021 to 2023, Antarctica had “intense snowfall” that helped build up layers of new ice. This also slowed the rise in sea level.

For the 20 years before this new change in Antarctica, the study found that the ice sheet lost about 120 billion tons of ice every year. Every year from 2021 to 2023, the continent added about 108 billion tons of ice. Scientists found that this three-year change in the climate cut the average rise in sea level around the world by almost 15%.

Using basic common sense and science 101, one will find that after an Ice Age, when ice on land melts the oceans will rise. Shocking!!

David Legates, professor of geography at the University of Delaware stated: “Since the last Ice Age, Ice has been melting and ocean levels have been rising for the last 20,000 years, and probably will continue.”

June 5, 2023

The Antarctic Ice Shelf Has grown by over 5,305 Square KM between 2009 to 2019

Antarctic sea ice extent in 2024 is above the post 1979 average, and is 16% higher than 1997.

This study has generated a comprehensive dataset of change in ice shelf area on 34 Antarctica ice shelves over the last decade. Overall, ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica lost areas of 6693 km2 and 5563 km2, respectively, while East Antarctic ice shelves gained 3532 km2 of ice, and the large ice shelves of Ross, Ronne, and Filchner grew by 14 028 km2. This dataset is a high spatial resolution record of change from 2009 to 2019.

This represents a total increase in ice shelf equaling 5,305 Sq Km.

Source: https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/2059/2023/

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