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Anna Hughes

Lecturer, University of Manchester

Expertise: Ice sheets and glaciers, Glacial geology, Remote sensing

Washington Post article accurately describes latest estimate of accelerating Antarctic ice loss

“The article presents the results of the study accurately, and uses multiple comments from scientists both involved and not-involved in the study to highlight the key findings. Some of the explanations are simplified, and there is a slight attempt at the end to downplay the results by suggesting scientists can’t predict the future. It is correct that the study presented is not making predictions, rather documenting past changes, but the positive trend is what we would expect based on the longer record of change we have for glaciers and ice caps.”