Ice in Greenland is melting even faster than scientists thought: This is a turning point

Environment It is already known that the climate change the ice caps are at record time does crumble. Not only in Antarctica but also in Greenland, where Tom Waes this weekend, still perched with his program. A new study shows that the ice in Greenland faster melting than previously thought and that the level of the sea, ever faster, will increase. Scientists fear that there is nothing more possible than to adapt.

The icebergs that crumble from the glacier and thus in the Atlantic Ocean enter and there melt, the sea level rise. But that happens faster than thought, and with ever-larger quantities. The loss of ice mass in Greenland went in 2013, four times faster than in 2003, it now appears from a study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and is based on data from NASA and gps-bases, which are scattered around Greenland. Cause: the warming of the earth by the hands of man and the North Atlantic Oscillation, a periodic weather phenomenon that warmer air to the West of Greenland.