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Greenland lost 11 billion tons of ice
August 5 , 2019
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- The heat wave that smashed high temperature is recorded in five polar European countries.
- It is accelerating the melting of the ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic.
- More than 11 billion tons of ice was lost to the oceans by surface melt on July 31st alone due to high temperature (21°C) from Greenland.
- This would be enough to permanently increase the world’s sea levels by 0.1 mm.
- While the melt from the ice sheets in July contributed to a rise of half a millimetre in global sea levels.
- Greenland, the world’s largest island, is a semi-autonomous Danish territory between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans that has 82% of its surface covered in ice.
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