As of Aug. 3, 40 percent of the U.S. was under drought conditions, and 2021 is looking like it may end up being one of the driest years in a millennium.
, found that the current system “may have evolved from relatively stable conditions to a point close to a critical transition.”Last week saw a “massive melting event” in Greenland after a bad heat wave. The Danish group Polar Portal said that the new 41 gigatons of meltwater is enough to soak Florida in two inches of water.in Greenland on a single day since 1950. The other two records were set also in the last decade.
“Even if we stopped all emission of greenhouse gases today, the sea level would continue to rise for the next several hundreds of years,” Martin Stendel, a climate researcher at the Danish Meteorological Institute,So now we have the combination of the melting ice sheets in both Greenland and Antarctica as well as the scary possibility that the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean will be disrupted enough to also cause a rise in sea level.
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