Amid historic heat, Greenland ice sheet loses 11 billion tons of water in one day of melting.
Greenland, home to the world's second largest ice sheet, is melting at such an alarming rate that scientists are warning it's on track with worst-case scenario models for the year 2070.
This is a roaring glacial melt, under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland where it's 22C today and Danish officials say 12 billions tons of ice melted in 24 hours, yesterday. pic.twitter.com/Rl2odG4xWj There is ice melt every year in the Arctic with slightly warmer months. But temperatures across the ice sheet have reached above freezing, even climbing into the 70's Fahrenheit on parts of the coast, and warmer winter months mean that the ice is less likely to recover.
While that melt was shocking, it pales in comparison to the one on Wednesday, as evident in the chart above. The warming has accelerated so much in recent years that about a quarter inch of the additional water occurred in the last eight years, the study found.
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