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The Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to raise global sea level by metres. The increase in air and ocean temperatures has altered the surface of this enormous island, which has suffered increased runoff, the formation of supraglacial lakes and iceberg calving for at least years, among other consequences. Greenland has lost trillion tons of ice since the early s, raising sea levels by cm. In , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ), the United Nations organization of scientists that advises on climate change, already predicted in one of its reports that melting ice would cause an increase in the global level of the sea by centimeters by the end of the century, which would impact the lives of million people.
Now, a group of scientists from about international institutions have used data from eleven different satellite missions to calculate changes in the mass of the Greenland ice sheet from to Iraq Telegram Number Data The results, published in the journal Nature , follow the IPCC line: this island has lost billion tons of ice since the early s, raising sea level by cm. Based on measurements of alterations in the ice sheet, volume, flow and gravity, the rate of melting has multiplied by seven in the last three decades, rising from melting at billion tons per year in the s. to , million tons per year in the last decade. The rate of melting is even faster than predicted by the IPCC, leading to the warmest scenario with an increase possibly seven centimeters more than predicted. These are two of the data that most concern the authors of the study, led by Andrew Shepherd , researcher at the University of Leeds United Kingdom.
If ice losses continue, sea level will rise between and additional cm by ," the scientist tells Sinc. As a general rule, for every one centimeter increase in global sea level, about six million More people are exposed to coastal flooding around the planet . On current trends, melting Greenland ice will cause about million people to suffer from flooding each year by the end of the century. In total there will be “about million in total due to the rise in sea level,” adds Shepherd, for whom these consequences will be devastating in coastal communities. Furthermore, due to past warming, sea level rise is virtually inevitable. “The only way to reverse the process is to cool the ice sheet, but this is not a realistic perspective,” confesses the researcher.
Now, a group of scientists from about international institutions have used data from eleven different satellite missions to calculate changes in the mass of the Greenland ice sheet from to Iraq Telegram Number Data The results, published in the journal Nature , follow the IPCC line: this island has lost billion tons of ice since the early s, raising sea level by cm. Based on measurements of alterations in the ice sheet, volume, flow and gravity, the rate of melting has multiplied by seven in the last three decades, rising from melting at billion tons per year in the s. to , million tons per year in the last decade. The rate of melting is even faster than predicted by the IPCC, leading to the warmest scenario with an increase possibly seven centimeters more than predicted. These are two of the data that most concern the authors of the study, led by Andrew Shepherd , researcher at the University of Leeds United Kingdom.
If ice losses continue, sea level will rise between and additional cm by ," the scientist tells Sinc. As a general rule, for every one centimeter increase in global sea level, about six million More people are exposed to coastal flooding around the planet . On current trends, melting Greenland ice will cause about million people to suffer from flooding each year by the end of the century. In total there will be “about million in total due to the rise in sea level,” adds Shepherd, for whom these consequences will be devastating in coastal communities. Furthermore, due to past warming, sea level rise is virtually inevitable. “The only way to reverse the process is to cool the ice sheet, but this is not a realistic perspective,” confesses the researcher.