Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lost 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice since 1979: study

The value here is the length of the record, not the headline figure: a 44-year reconstruction puts ice-sheet loss on a long, continuous baseline rather than a snapshot, which matters for how sea-level risk gets priced into long-duration assets such as coastal infrastructure and catastrophe bonds. The finding affects insurers, reinsurers and municipal issuers with coastal exposure more than it does crypto markets directly. Whether this record reshapes loss modelling and disclosure expectations is the open question.