'Unprecedented' Ice Loss As Greenland Breaks Record
Scientists have revealed that Greenland has had a record-breaking amount of ice loss and, as you can imagine, that is not a good record to break.
Researchers say that the scale of the melt was 'unprecedented' in records dating back to 1948.
The paper states how GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment - Follow On) satellites were used to measure the mass losses.
Between 2003-2016, the Greenland ice sheet was one of the largest contributors to sea level rise, as it lost about 255 gigatonnes of ice per year. This slowed down in 2017 and 2018 to around 100 gigatonnes a year.
The research states: "We find that this reduced ice loss results from two anomalous cold summers in western Greenland, compounded by snow-rich autumn and winter conditions in the east."
If the ice does disappear then the water from it would be expected to push the sea levels up by around six metres which is enough to swamp many coastal cities around the world
And that's exacerbated when you get storms and hurricanes and things like that, that then cause extra surge on top of a higher baseline.
