Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return

[Seldom Bucket]

Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet would continue shrinking.


The finding, published today, Aug. 13, in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, means that Greenland's glaciers have passed a tipping point of sorts, where the snowfall that replenishes the ice sheet each year cannot keep up with the ice that is flowing into the ocean from glaciers.

Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return

Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet would continue shrinking.

phys.org

 

[sand_man]

Oh dear...

 

[Mortymoose]

Stupid Greenland! Need to find some other place to go for my yearly vacation.......

 

[BloodrayneZA]

Oh dear...

Ditto. There goes Elsa and her dream of ruling a Frozen land.