Science
All-time record melt: Greenland loses 532 billion tonnes of ice – Sydney Morning Herald
Last year’s Greenland melt added 1.5 millimetres to global sea level rise helping cause coastal flooding and other problems.
Last years Greenland melt added 1.5 millimetres to global sea level rise. That sounds like a tiny amount but in our world its huge, thats astounding, said study co-author Alex Gardner, a NASA ice scientist. Add in more water from melting in other ice sheets and glaciers, along with an ocean that expands as it warms and that translates into slowly rising sea levels, coastal flooding and other problems, he said.
Greenland lost more ice last year than at any other time on record, adding 532 trilli…
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