Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melting Seven Times Faster Than In The 90s

The ice sheet of Greenland is melting much faster than previously thought, threatening hundreds of millions of people with flooding. This brings some of the irreversible impacts of climate emergency much closer.

Ice is being lost from Greenland seven times faster than it was in the 1990s, and the scale and speed of ice loss is much higher than was predicted in the comprehensive studies of global climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to data.
That means sea level rises are likely to reach 67cm by 2100, about 7cm more than the IPCC’s main prediction. Such a rate of rise will put 400 million people at risk of flooding every year, instead of the 360 million predicted by the IPCC, by the end of the century.

Learn more about this worrisome news over at The Guardian.

(Image Credit: Benoit Lecavalier/PA/ The Guardian)


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