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<blockquote data-quote="Slo_Ride" data-source="post: 8687348" data-attributes="member: 563830">Greenland’s ice sheet is now melting seven times faster than it was in the early 90s, according to 28 satellite measurements and the 89 scientists involved in producing them. “The sheet’s total losses nearly doubled each decade, from 33 billion tons per year in the 1990s to an average now of 254 billion tons annually,” Chris Mooney writes for the Washington Post. “The recent Greenland losses, the experts suggest, match a more dire sea-level projection outlined by the United Nations’ chief climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Under that high-end scenario, Greenland could contribute about 16 centimeters, or around half a foot, to ocean levels by 2100,” Mooney writes.<a href="https://ibb.co/2nWkvBt" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/Gxn5Wj2/novapbs-20191210-21.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slo_Ride, post: 8687348, member: 563830"] Greenland’s ice sheet is now melting seven times faster than it was in the early 90s, according to 28 satellite measurements and the 89 scientists involved in producing them. “The sheet’s total losses nearly doubled each decade, from 33 billion tons per year in the 1990s to an average now of 254 billion tons annually,” Chris Mooney writes for the Washington Post. “The recent Greenland losses, the experts suggest, match a more dire sea-level projection outlined by the United Nations’ chief climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Under that high-end scenario, Greenland could contribute about 16 centimeters, or around half a foot, to ocean levels by 2100,” Mooney writes. [url=https://ibb.co/2nWkvBt][img]https://i.ibb.co/Gxn5Wj2/novapbs-20191210-21.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]

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