article_snippet: This is according to a new study that has combined 18-years worth of ice shelf thinning data from three different sets of satellites.
article_snippet: The findings, published today in the journal Science, . come amid concern among many scientists about the effects of .
article_snippet: There has been more and more ice being lost from .
article_snippet: While it is fair to say that we're seeing the ice shelves .
article_snippet: responding to climate change, we don't believe there is enough .
article_snippet: evidence to directly relate recent ice shelf losses specifically .
article_snippet: to changes in global temperature,' Fricker said.
article_snippet: Research in Corvallis, Oregon said for a few Antarctic ice .
article_snippet: Much of the increased melting elsewhere is .
article_snippet: probably due to more warm water getting under the ice shelves .
article_snippet: because of increasing winds near Antarctica, Padman added.
article_snippet: Fricker said future studies will concentrate on the causes behind changes in ice shelf volume, including the effects of the atmosphere and ocean. '
article_snippet: We're looking into connections between El Niño events in the tropical Pacific and changes in the Antarctic ice sheet,' said Scripps graduate student Fernando Paolo.
article_snippet: That may ultimately allow We to improve We models for predicting future ice loss.'
highlights_snippet: Scientists combined 18-years of ice thinning data from three satellites .
  