Greenland loses 8.5 billion tonnes of ice sheet in a day, enough to drown Andhra Pradesh
As per the information, the region lost 8.5 billion tons of surface mass on Tuesday and another 8.4 billion tons on Thursday.
FollowWe are facing the worst climate crisis this year. Across the globe, there are wildfires, floods, and landslides that have already made it to the news, and this extreme change is expected to be the effects of greenhouse gas and global warming. There have been reports of melting of ice near the poles.
Recently, the Danish government released the data and stated that Greenland is losing vast ice sheets. As per the information, the region lost 8.5 billion tons of surface mass on Tuesday and another 8.4 billion tons on Thursday. It is stated that the amount of ice lost will add up to the following water into the ocean. As the ocean water expands in volume, coastal areas would be under threat of losing land eventually.
As per the experts, the amount of ice lost by Greenland is enough to drown United States' Florida or India's Andhra Pradesh in few inches of water.
Cities with a coastline like Mumbai, Chennai, Jakarta, Tokyo and countries like Maldives, Philippines, and others will also bear the brunt of the rising ocean levels.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change informed that global warming and its subsequent effects played a major role in raising average global sea level in the past 100 years.
The rate at which ice is melting as the temperatures continue to increase and changing ocean currents, impacting marine ecosystems, is posing a threat to the world's low-lying coastal cities. As per the US National Snow and Ice Data Cente, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets make up 99 per cent of Earth's freshwater reserves.
