Greenland’s Coastal Ice Passed a Climate Tipping Point 20 Years Ago, Study Says – Inside Climate News
Article Synopsis – Ice caps and glaciers along the coast of Greenland passed a tipping point in 1997, when a layer of snow that once absorbed summer meltwater became fully saturated. Since then, the coastal ice fields—separate from the main Greenland Ice Sheet—have been melting three times faster than they had been. It’s very unlikely the ice caps will recover. It’s a climate tipping point—the time at which a change or an effect cannot be stopped. The fear is a total meltdown of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which would raise global sea level by 24 feet, though this is not expected to happen for at least a few centuries. To read the actual article click here.