Sea level rise quickens as Greenland ice sheet sheds record amount – The Jakarta Post – Jakarta Post

Greenland’s massive ice sheet saw a record net loss of 532 billion tons last year, raising red flags about accelerating sea level rise, according to new findings.
That is equivalent to an additional three million tons of water streaming into global oceans every day, or six Olympic pools every second.
Crumbling glaciers and torrents of melt-water slicing through Greenland’s ice block — as thick as ten Eiffel Towers end-to-end — were the single biggest source of global sea level rise in 2019 a…

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