Huge Chunk Of Greenland's Ice Cap Breaks Off

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Key Background:last month found that the Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at accelerated rates, making it the largest single contributor to rising sea levels."Glacier retreat has knocked the dynamics of the whole ice sheet into a constant state of loss," the study's co-author, Ian Howat, an earth scientist from Ohio State University,

."Even if the climate were to stay the same or even get a little colder, the ice sheet would still be losing mass." A separate study published in August in the journal"Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet of water.

 

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Roughly the size if Ohio ?

Oh, no! Do you think Trump had a giant ice pick?

False data the state of Ohio is 40,948 sq mi of land. Not a good comparison “An enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap measuring approximately 42.3 square miles (roughly the size of Ohio) has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic,“

Stop spreading panic and fear that is not fact based! Polar caps melting is a natural occurrence that has gone on for thousands of years!

And everything is going to be just fine because this happens all the time in nature!

This is so 2011

Looks like the picture in my Weekly Reader when I was in 2nd grade in 1966.

You should shame this billionaires for what their lobbying is doing to our planet and nations in order to save them money on taxes

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