NEW YORK (REUTERS) - Greenland's ice sheet shrank last year by more than at any time since record-taking began, according to a study published on Wednesday (April 16) that showed the risk that climate change could cause sharp rises in global sea levels.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - Greenland's ice sheet shrank last year by more than at any time since record-taking began, according to a study published on Wednesday that showed the risk that climate change could cause sharp rises in global sea levels.
"We're destroying ice in decades that was built over thousands of years," Marco Tedesco, research professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, who led the study, told Reuters."What we do here has huge implications for everywhere else in the world." Greenland lost around 600 billion tonnes of water last year, an amount that would contribute about 1.5 millimetres of sea level rise, according to the study from Columbia and Belgium's Liege university, published in The Cryosphere.
Greenland contributed 20 to 25 per cent of global sea level rise over the past few decades, Tedesco said. If carbon emissions continue to grow, this share could rise to around 40 per cent by 2100, he said, although there is considerable uncertainty about how ice melt will develop in Antarctica - the largest expanse of ice on Earth.
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