High -temperature weather brings irreversible consequences, Greenland's single -day ice melting volume reached 6 billion tons

Jimu Journalist Hu Xiuwen

According to a report from the United States Cable TV News Network on July 20, the extremely warm weather in the past few days has led to the rapid melting of the ice cover in the northern part of Greenland, with a single day melting volume of 6 billion tons.

Ice melted into water and merged into a river (picture source: CNN)

According to scientists, the temperature in the northern Greenland Island has always been around 60 degrees (15.5 ° C) in Fahrenheit.

According to data from the National Ice and Snow Data Center, from July 15th to 17th, Greenland is 6 billion tons daily, which is enough to fill a swimming pool of 7.2 million Olympic -scale.

Sakukes, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado National Ice and Snow Data Center, said: "From the perspective of the climate average of 30 to 40 years, the melting of the northern Greenland Island in the past week is abnormal."

This warmth is worrying. "This makes me worry." A research scientist at the University of Texas, who was stationed at Greenland, said, "Yesterday we could walk around in T -shirts."

A lonely seal on the sea ice bath on the sea ice on the northwest coast of Greenland (picture source: CNN)

Every summer, scientists are worried that they will see the melting of the record in 2019. At that time, 532 billion tons of ice water flowed into the sea. The unexpected high temperature and the heat wave in July caused almost the surface of the whole ice cover to melt. As a result, the global sea level permanently rose 1.5 mm.

If the ice of Greenland is melted, the global sea level will be raised 7.5 meters.

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