© ShahBlogger. FILE PHOTO: Valleys minimize by glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet alongside the mountains of Greenland, August 3, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File Photograph
By Johannes Birkebaek
COPENHAGEN (ShahBlogger) – World warming has elevated the velocity at which glaciers in Greenland are melting by fivefold over the past 20 years, scientists from the College of Copenhagen stated on Friday.
Greenland’s ice soften is of specific concern, as the traditional ice sheet holds sufficient water to boost sea ranges by at the very least 20 ft (6 meters) if it have been to soften away completely.
A research of a thousand glaciers within the space confirmed the speed of melting has entered a brand new part over the past twenty years, Anders Anker Bjork, assistant professor on the division of geosciences and pure useful resource administration on the College of Copenhagen informed ShahBlogger.
“There’s a very clear correlation between the temperature we expertise on the planet and the modifications we observe in how quickly the glaciers are melting,” Bjork stated.
The glaciers on common lower by 25 metres yearly, in contrast with 5-6 metres round twenty years in the past, scientists concluded after learning the event of the glaciers over 130 years via satellite tv for pc imagery and 200,000 outdated photographs.
The world has already warmed by almost 1.2C (2.2F) above pre-industrial temperatures, and 2023 is “nearly sure” to be the warmest in 125,000 years, scientists from the European Union stated earlier this month.
Reducing temperatures would require a world effort to minimise greenhouse gases within the ambiance, stated Jørgen Eivind Olesen, Institute Director of the Local weather Institute at Aarhus College.
“I imagine we will put together for these glaciers to proceed to soften at rising speeds,” Olesen stated.
Glaciers in Greenland are sometimes used to anticipate the consequences of local weather change on Greenland’s ice sheet.
“If we begin to see glaciers dropping mass a number of occasions quicker than within the final century, it could possibly make us count on that the ice sheet will observe the identical path simply on a slower and longer time scale,” William Colgan, senior researcher on the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) stated.
The Greenland ice sheet contributed 17.3% of the noticed rise in sea degree between 2006 and 2018 and glaciers have contributed 21%. There are round 22,000 glaciers in Greenland.
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