Do We Need Further Proof?

Few, perhaps, need further proof, but we’re mired nowadays so deeply in the forest of national politics and international strife that we can just barely see the trees which are about to fall upon us.

A geophysicist at the Centre for Space Research at the University of Texas, said that a huge mass of ice that covers most of Greenland is melting at an alarming rate, almost three times faster than it did five years ago, and the pace is increasing each year.

According to this new study, conducted by a US-based research team led by Chinese scientist Chen Jianli, Greenland is currently losing 240 cubic kilometers of ice each year since 2004, and accelerating. The researchers’ team estimated the loss after assessing ice mass changes over Greenland between 2002 and 2005. Earlier study had shown that the annual loss of the Greenland ice sheet was nearly 90 cubic kilometers between 1997 and 2003.

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