Global warming matters
Posted: March 19th, 2020, 12:10 pm
I couldn't see a thread on this so figured we'd better have one.
Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months
Analysis of satellite date reveals astounding loss of 600bn tons of ice last summer as Arctic experienced hottest year on record
Greenland’s enormous ice sheet lost an average of 268bn tons of ice between 2002 and 2019 – less than half of what was shed last summer.
Ice is being lost from Greenland seven times faster than it was in the 1990s, scientists revealed last year, pushing up previous estimates of global sea level rise and putting 400 million people at risk of flooding every year by the end of the century.
More recent research has found that Antarctica, the largest ice sheet on Earth, is also losing mass at a galloping rate, although the latest University of California and Nasa works reveals a nuanced picture.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... ate-crisis
Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months
Analysis of satellite date reveals astounding loss of 600bn tons of ice last summer as Arctic experienced hottest year on record
Greenland’s enormous ice sheet lost an average of 268bn tons of ice between 2002 and 2019 – less than half of what was shed last summer.
Ice is being lost from Greenland seven times faster than it was in the 1990s, scientists revealed last year, pushing up previous estimates of global sea level rise and putting 400 million people at risk of flooding every year by the end of the century.
More recent research has found that Antarctica, the largest ice sheet on Earth, is also losing mass at a galloping rate, although the latest University of California and Nasa works reveals a nuanced picture.
etc
https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... ate-crisis