In recent days, Greenland's massive ice sheet has been melting at twice its average summer rate, shedding enough water to cover the entire state of Florida with 5 inches of water, research from Danish scientists shows.
Rivers of meltwater carve into the Greenland ice sheet near the Sermeq Avangnardleq glacier in western Greenland in August 2019.
, professor of geography and urban sustainability at the University of Miami, told Yahoo News. “We’re just at the beginning.” “In 2012, when Greenland had their first dramatic melt across the whole ice sheet, it was unexpected,” he said. “That wasn’t in the models for decades to have anything like that. Now that has become pretty commonplace.”In the summer of 2013, Wanless traveled to Greenland and was shocked by what he saw.
found that while the Earth lost an average of 760 billion tons of ice in the 1990s, that rate grew to more than 1.2 trillion tons in the 2010s.
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