A study of satellite images found that an estimated 11,000 square miles of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the past 30 years, giving way
Global warming is turning Greenland green.
Parts of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers that melted over the past three decades have been replaced by wetlands, shrub vegetation and areas of barren rock, according to a new study that used satellite images to track changes since the 1980s.
The findings, published Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports, raise concerns about how Greenland’s retreating ice could threaten the stability of the landscape, exacerbate rising sea levels and contribute further greenhouse gas emissions in areas that have turned into methane-producing wetlands.
Greenland is often considered “ground zero” for the climate crisis because even small shifts in temperature can have outsize impacts across the entire Arctic region — and around the world. Scientists have estimated that if the Greenland ice sheet were to melt completely, it could raise global sea levels by more than 23 feet.
How are we going to get Iceland covered by ice though…
We’d need to deescalate global warming so much that it literally becomes global cooling.
Although even Greenland would not be green anymore.
cheap thermal energy turns Reykjavik into a world-class carbon neutral meth lab and paves the country with it.
Because that’s the only ice they’re gonna have in half a century.
They can start selling iced cakes and make them selves famous for that… I have a few NSFW options aswell