Anthropogenic warming forces extreme annual glacier mass loss

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0849-2

Detecting a human role in a given year of extreme glacier mass loss is difficult at regional scales. Event attribution methods estimate that two extreme mass-loss years in the New Zealand Southern Alps, 2011 and 2018, were at least six and ten times more likely with anthropogenic climate warming.