Greenland Glaciers Melting Faster and Faster... "A Different Dimension Compared to 20 Years Ago"

Researchers: "Melting at an average of 25m per year"
"The past 12 months, the hottest period in Earth's history"

As global warming continues, the rate at which Greenland's glaciers are melting has been found to have accelerated fivefold over the past 20 years.

On the 10th (local time), foreign media reported that researchers at the University of Copenhagen announced, "After examining about 1,000 glaciers in the Greenland region, the melting rate over the past 20 years has reached a level unlike before."

The research team analyzed patterns over the past 130 years using satellite images of glaciers and 200,000 historical photographs. As a result, it was revealed that 20 years ago, glaciers melted at an average rate of 5 to 6 meters per year, but recently, they have been melting at an average rate of 25 meters per year.

The approximately 22,000 glaciers in Greenland are often used as a gauge to estimate the impact of climate change on continental glaciers. It is known that if all of Greenland's continental glaciers melt, the global sea level would rise by at least 6 meters.

Glaciers of Greenland

Andres Anker Bjork, Assistant Professor of Geosciences at the University of Copenhagen, said, "There is a clear correlation between the temperature changes we experience on Earth and the changes in the rate at which glaciers are melting that we have observed."

Meanwhile, according to research results released on the 9th by the nonprofit climate research organization Climate Central, the global average temperature from November 2022 to last month was 1.32 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial average. This figure is close to the 1.5-degree Celsius limit agreed upon by countries under the Paris Agreement to not exceed.

Andrew Pershing, Vice President of Climate Central, said at a press conference, "This is the most extreme heatwave the Earth has experienced in 125,000 years."

Pershing and many other scientists predict that in 2024, the influence of El Ni?o will become stronger, causing the Earth to become even hotter.

Jason Smerdon, a climatologist at Columbia University in the United States, emphasized, "The Earth is getting hotter, and this has been predicted for decades. At this point, no one should take this fact lightly."

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