Greenland is Melting Even Faster Than Experts Thought, Study Finds

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Greenland is Melting Even Faster Than Experts Thought, Study Finds

           

CLICK HERE - STUDY - PNAS - Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018

cnn.com - by Jen Christensen - April 23, 2019

Climate change is eliminating giant chunks of ice from Greenland at such a speed that the melt has already made a significant contribution to sea level rise, according to a new study. With global warming, the island will lose much more, threatening coastal cities around the world.

Forty percent to 50% of the planet's population is in cities that are vulnerable to sea rise, and the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is bad news for places like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Mumbai.

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CLICK HERE - NASA - GRACE-FO - Greenland Ice Loss 2002-2016

CLICK HERE - STUDY - Nature - Nonlinear rise in Greenland runoff in response to post-industrial Arctic warming

CLICK HERE - Greenland's ice is melting

CLICK HERE - National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) - Greenland Ice Sheet Today

 

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