Partial Photo: Alexander Marinescu
More bad news for the Arctic Circle. For the first time in recorded history, in August rain fell on the highest point of the Greenland ice sheet. It contains four times more ice than all of Earth’s other glaciers and ice fields combined, outside Antarctica. Greenland lost more ice in the past decade than in the previous century. No other single factor will probably contribute more to sea level rise over the next few decades. If Greenland continues to melt, in one bad-case scenario after another, tens of millions of people could be in danger of yearly flooding and displacement by 2030–less than nine years from now.
Read the second chapter of AN IMPENDING CALAMITY for more on the Arctic.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/13/greenland-ice-sheet-melting-fridtjof-nansen