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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.
In an interview with Sky News, he emphasised that the melted ice 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."
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Just as stark is the warning from the secretary general of the United Nations' World Meteorological Organisation, Professor Petteri Taalas.
In an interview with Sky News, he emphasised that the melted ice 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."
World has lost battle to stop glaciers melting and sea level rising, UN meteorological chief says
"We have lost this glacier melting game and sea level rise game," Professor Petteri Taalas tells Sky News.
