Glacier or eternal ice in Greenland continue to melt. The effect of this event is the threat of flooding on a global scale.
Launching CNN Indonesia, global warming has repeatedly been cited as the mastermind behind the extreme melting of ice in Greenland. This continues to increase the risk of global flooding.
According to a study led by researchers at the University of Leeds, in the last decade as much as 3.5 trillion tons of ice melted from the island’s surface, and flowed into the ocean.
This amount of liquefaction is considered sufficient to inundate the entire British mainland as high as 13 meters.
In this study, scientists first used data from satellites to detect the phenomenon of melting ice from space, known as ice sheet runoff.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, reveal that runoff from the Greenland melt increased 21 percent over the past four decades.
Thomas Slater, who is also a researcher at the Leeds Center for Polar Observation and Modeling, said Greenland was vulnerable to an increase in extreme weather.
“As we have seen with other parts of the world, Greenland is also vulnerable to an increase in extreme weather events,” Slater said.
He said as the climate warms, it makes perfect sense for extreme melting in Greenland to occur, even if it is said to be happening more often.
These observations are an important step in helping humans improve climate models and predict the next century.
Research shows that over a decade from 2011 to 2020, increased runoff from Greenland raised sea levels globally by one centimeter.
One-third of total ice melt increased during extreme summers, in 2012 and 2019. When extreme weather led to record-breaking rates of ice melt in the last 40 years.
Rising sea levels caused by melting ice are increasing the risk of coastal flooding around the world, and disrupting the marine ecosystems in the Arctic Ocean on which they depend for food.
Slater said that despite these risks, there is still an optimistic way to do that, namely meeting the target to reduce emissions. It is said Slater could reduce ice shrinkage in Greenland by up to three times.
“There is still time to achieve it,” he said.
Amber Leeson, senior lecturer in environmental data science at Lancaster University, said modeling showed that the Greenland ice sheet would contribute between 3 and 23 centimeters to global sea level rise by 2100.
“These predictions have a wide range, in part because of the uncertainty associated with simulating complex ice-melting processes, including those associated with extreme weather,” Leeson said as quoted by Yahoo News.
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