Greenland Ice Loss Breaks Records - CC
532 Gigatons of Ice Lost in 2019 Source: Polar Bear in Arctic Meltdown New Study: Worsening Climate Change, Melt Tops Forecasts The signs are undeniable that Climate Change is accelerating and breaking scientific estimates. A new study has documented that the Greenland ice sheet lost a record amount of mass in 2019. The loss is so dramatic that scientists are expected to start restating and redefining their worst case scenarios based on the new Greenland findings. The worst case scenarios are for rising ocean waters and flooding affecting millions of people in coastal locations. New Melt Shatters Records The rate of the Greenland ice sheet melt, caught by satellites and analyzed by scientists through derived data, is record shattering. Geoscientist and glaciologist Ingo Sasgen of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany documented the loss of 532 gigatons of ice, or 66 tons of ice for every person on Earth - in 2019 just in the Greenland ice sheet. Greenland experienced much w