Greenland hit with 'unusually extensive' melting of ice sheet, boosting sea levels, scientists say

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It's getting hotter in Greenland, and last weekend temperatures rose enough to cause 18 billion tons of the country's ice sheet to melt over three days.

Scientists have warned about the fate of Greenland's ice sheet and say what happened between July 15 and 17 is the latest massive melting event contributing to an increase in the global sea level.

The amount of water from the melt – about 6 billion tons a day, or 18 billion tons over the weekend – is enough to "cover West Virginia in a foot of water – 4 inches per day, roughly," Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado's Earth Science and Observation Center and National Snow and Ice Data Center, told USA TODAY.

 

 

This damn China hoax is getting out of hand.

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I wonder in future if we survive will the Greenland be finally true to its name....

 

Lol.

 

Also I don't understand why people buy mega expensive condos in South beach , Maimi (like the Porsche building) when they are already bringing sand every year to fix the beach and with rising water level of those elite beach properties will require to walk / drive in water to get in....

 

 

 

 

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On 25/07/2022 at 08:34, E.Worm Jimmy said:

I wonder in future if we survive will the Greenland be finally true to its name....

 

Lol.

 

Researchers have found that Greenland was once truly green, which shows that the southern highlands of the country used to be home to a lush boreal forest. The presence at the site of trees such as alder, spruce, pine and yew as well as invertebrates such as beetles, flies, spiders, butterflies and moths. The samples were dated back to between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago.

 

Not only that but today, the South Pole records average winter temperatures of 78 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. But roughly 90 million years ago, the fossils suggest, Antarctica was as warm as Italy and covered by a green expanse of rainforest.

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On 24/07/2022 at 19:34, foolsfolly said:

Researchers have found that Greenland was once truly green, which shows that the southern highlands of the country used to be home to a lush boreal forest. The presence at the site of trees such as alder, spruce, pine and yew as well as invertebrates such as beetles, flies, spiders, butterflies and moths. The samples were dated back to between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago.

 

Not only that but today, the South Pole records average winter temperatures of 78 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. But roughly 90 million years ago, the fossils suggest, Antarctica was as warm as Italy and covered by a green expanse of rainforest.

My point it it was named Greenland not becuase of past but becuase of the tiny part that was green.

Maybe soon it will be green again.

 

As for Antarctica - does it mean that conspiracy theory of the poles and equator flipping back in the day were true???

 

 

 

 

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On 25/07/2022 at 09:49, E.Worm Jimmy said:

 

 

As for Antarctica - does it mean that conspiracy theory of the poles and equator flipping back in the day were true???

 

 

That isn't a conspiracy theory. Pole reversals are common in Earth's geologic history. Paleomagnetic records tell us Earth's magnetic poles have reversed 183 times in the last 83 million years, and at least several hundred times in the past 160 million years.

Both Jupiter and Saturn are also known as experiencing pole reversals.

 

As for Antarctica being green, it probably has to do with the supercontinent Pangaea which dates back some 280 million years ago when the entire land mass of Earth were joined together. What is now Antarctica would have been closer to the equator and froze as it drifted south after the break up of Pangaea.

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On 24/07/2022 at 17:34, E.Worm Jimmy said:

I wonder in future if we survive will the Greenland be finally true to its name....

 

Lol.

 

Also I don't understand why people buy mega expensive condos in South beach , Maimi (like the Porsche building) when they are already bringing sand every year to fix the beach and with rising water level of those elite beach properties will require to walk / drive in water to get in....

 

 

 

 

Ya, it's like people who build on known flood land ... like...WHY!? Then it floods (Shocker) and their expensive house sustains major water damage