A Snippet from new Climate Hot Topic vid: Greenland ice melt numbers last 20 years
26 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief video snippet, the narrator highlights NASA's GRACE satellite observations of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 2002 onward, emphasizing that the ice sheet has been losing an average of 277 gigatons of ice per year. Over the past two decades this amounts to roughly 5,500 gigatons, or more than 5 trillion tons (about 11 quadrillion pounds) of freshwater. The narrator points out that this volume of meltwater entering the North Atlantic each year is comparable to, and slightly exceeds, the total freshwater volume of Lake Michigan, underscoring the massive scale of the melt and its potential impact on oceanic systems.










