Greenland's Rapid Melt
Greenland's Rapid Melt
Greenland Climate
Greenland’s Rapid Melt Will Mean More Flooding
The Greenland Ice Sheet is rapidly melting, having lost 3.8 trillion tons of ice between 1992 and 2018,
a new study from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) finds.
The study combined 26 independent satellite datasets to track global warming’s effect on Greenland,
one of the largest ice sheets on Earth, and the ice sheet melt’s impact on rising sea levels.
The findings, which forecast an approximate 3 to 5 inches (70 to 130 millimeters) of global sea level rise by 2100,
are in alignment with previous worst-case projections if the average rate of Greenland’s ice loss continues.
Changes to the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are of considerable societal importance,
as they directly impact global sea levels, which are a result of climate change.
Source: NASA
Most of us are familiar
Greenland Climate
Most of us are familiar with the term ‘climate change’, and see it to some extent as a reality of the world today.
For many of us it’s something that we simply see in the news,
with environmental conditions setting new records in faraway nations: “the warmest”, “the wettest”, “the driest”.
But in some place’s climate change is an undeniable fact of everyday life. One of these places is Greenland.
Source: Visit Greenland
