6 Interesting Climate Change Facts - Page 5 of 8

We Are Losing 1.2 Trillion Tons of Ice Each Year

This item on our list of climate change facts can be hard to comprehend because we are dealing with volume beyond our comprehension. Since the mid-1990s, we’ve lost around 28 trillion tons of ice, with today’s melt rate standing at 1.2 trillion tons a year. To help you put that into perspective, the combined weight of all human-made things is 1.1 trillion tons. That’s about the same weight as all living things on earth.