@Pips to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoGreenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study revealswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square27arrow-up1276arrow-down15cross-posted to: collapse@lemmy.mlworldmews@mbin.grits.devscience@lemmy.worldclimate@slrpnk.neteurope@feddit.de
arrow-up1271arrow-down1external-linkGreenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study revealswww.theguardian.com@Pips to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square27cross-posted to: collapse@lemmy.mlworldmews@mbin.grits.devscience@lemmy.worldclimate@slrpnk.neteurope@feddit.de
minus-square@lntl@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish7•5 months agoI did the math on this recently: GL has approx 3 million Gt of ice and is losing it at a rate approx equal to 260 Gt/yr. If that rate is constant (unlikely) the first ice free summer in GL will be in 13,500 CE
I did the math on this recently: GL has approx 3 million Gt of ice and is losing it at a rate approx equal to 260 Gt/yr.
If that rate is constant (unlikely) the first ice free summer in GL will be in 13,500 CE