Greenland's ice sheet has lost 11B,000,000 lbs of water since 1972

Note that I wrote it out as 11,000,000,000,000,000 (11 quadrillion) in the title, but HN converted it to "11B,000,000" so 11-million-billions?

Really? The Danish Meteorological Institute is recording the surface mass budget at record levels.

https://www.iceagenow.info/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-...

That looks like a sketchy denialist source to me. I don't trust it to accurately summarize scientific results.

The article it references is pretty clear on that: "The ice sheet also loses ice by the breaking off, or “calving”, of icebergs from its edge, but that is not included in this type of budget. As a result, the SMB will always be positive – that is, the ice sheet gains more snow than the ice it loses."

So? Are sea levels actually any higher because of it, or what?

Have you tried reading articles before you snark about them?

> A new study finds that the Greenland Ice Sheet added a quarter inch of water to global sea levels in just the past eight years.