Heat Wave Hits Greenland
Monster heat wave reaches Greenland, bringing rain and melting its ice sheet
NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland mission warns the ice sheet is more at risk to global warming than we knew.
Temperature departure from normal. CREDIT: ClimateReanalyzer.org |
It's been unusually warm in the United States in recent days, with records being set across the country. But it's been scorching in Greenland, with temperatures as much as 54° above normal, which means above freezing in many places.
And this comes on the heels of new research from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland mission, which finds that the enormous ice sheet is far more unstable than we realized. That's bad news because the Greenland ice sheet contains enough land-locked ice to raise sea levels by over 20 feet.
We've had warnings before that Greenland is past the tipping point. And the news of a heat wave over Greenland this November is not good news.
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