Greenland is melting. Now some people don't even know Greenland is located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. Some may assume that Antarctica is the only region on earth that contains ice and Greenland, well a big land of green.
Now, during the show sequence, Dr. Jason Box, a glaciologist, guides us to why these glaciers are meting at a rapid rate. One of the reasons why the ice sheets are melting is due dirty, dark ice, the soot from pollution absorbs the sunlight that is on top of the surface.
Of course wildfires are to blame, but also mass amount of industrial pollution that we create. Greenland contains 21 feet of global sea level, and if it all melts, 80 of the worlds biggest cities will be under water. During the show, the glaciers were falling apart every other fifteen minutes.
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| Greenland's glaciers that once made up majority of the land are melting rapidly |
Dr. Gavin Schimdt, climatologist, states we need to cut back carbon dioxide 80%, and this is a "crime scene covered in our fingers". WOAH.
Watching the documentary made me a bit scared because knowing this is happening as we speak and no real way to actually stop it years so come is devastating. We are causing this and there's no turning back.
For more updated news
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150120151221.htm
http://www.ibtimes.com/greenland-ice-melt-islands-vanishing-lakes-making-massive-ice-sheet-less-stable-study-1790300
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