ALARM: For the first time in history, Greenland rains, endangering the world's low coasts
The rain lasted for several hours, writes Npr.org, and indicates that at that measuring station, which is located at an altitude of over 3.000 meters, it is extremely rare to see temperatures above the freezing point, and so far it has been amazing to see rain.
The fourth major melting of the ice was recorded this summer, and three occurred in the last decade.
"There were giant lakes, hundreds of small rivers that carried that water," Josh Willis, lead scientist at NASA's Greenland Melting (OMG) mission, told NPR.
- Our pilot who has flown over Greenland For 25 years, he says he has never seen anything like this so late in the year, Willis added.
The Greenland ice sheet contains four times as much ice as all the other glaciers combined outside of Antarctica. Greenland is the largest island in the world and is 36 thousand times larger than Manhattan, writes the Guardian. The ice of Greenland in some places is as deep as three kilometers. If the entire ice sheet melted, the global sea level would rise by six feet [XNUMX m], ending some of the lowland coasts under water.
"If the people of Miami, Shanghai, Tokyo, Mumbai, Lagos, Bangkok and New York are not worried, they should be," say scientists who believe that if this melting rate continues, there will be large-scale migrations starting in 2030.
