Greenland Ice Sheet
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Beautiful and striking from land, sea and air, the Greenland Ice sheet covers about 80% of Greenland in the North Atlantic. It is probably the most well-known glacier for most people because of the many thousands of transcontinental flights that pass over it annually, going from Europe to North America, every year.
It is truly the stuff of legends - who would have thought that a child's fascination about Greenland being white and Iceland being green so many years ago would have led to sadness at what was once a welcomed landmark, on a long and tiring journey. The sheet was once 2,400 km long and 1,100 km wide. It reached depths of 2km in most places and 3 km at one point, covering an area of some 100,000 km2.
However, global warming and climate changes are now seriously threatening the very existence of this 110,000 year old survivor of the last ice age and the future existence of many world communities and peoples.
Scientists once thought that these dramatic changes, fuelled rapidly by human environmental neglect, would melt the sheet within 300 years. However, recent findings show that this is happening more quickly than ever expected. The future that millions of people face is imminent disaster by the end of this century.
Recent scientific findings have been broadcast worldwide within the last weeks, showing grave concerns about the Greenland ice sheet meltdown. In fact, the rate of the meltdown is now 3 times faster than only 5 years before. Evidence clearly targets global warming and climate changes as the sole trigger for this impending disaster.
In fact, scientific findings show that global sea levels are already rising. The meltdown was at about 48 miles4 annually, but has dramatically increased to 52 miles4 per year. Waters worldwide are now rising 0.2 inches each year as a result, a major jump compared to previous decades. Scientists are warning that sea levels in the North Atlantic will rise as much as 21.3 ft because the ice sheet is losing more of its own mass via melting and glacier discharge than it is getting back from new snowfall.
As a result the sheet has lost its balance and ability to survive. In fact, because water is more easily influenced by gravity in its liquid form, the meltdown rate will only increase. Historically, the Greenland Ice Sheet has shrunk before, some 130,000 years ago, but the shrinkage took much longer and the affect on the planet was more gradual.
The only solution to the Greenland Ice Sheet meltdown is to slow down or stop the affects of global warming or climate changes. This can be done by you and your community by doing the following:
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