Denmark, Jul 3: Global warming is causing the average temperatures to rise across continents.
Greenland’s ice sheet has melted by about 8 billion tons a day in about a week, the third biggest loss in a
week since 1950. This water is enough to cover the US state of Florida in two inches of water, and if it
melts completely, it will make the ocean levels rise by 6 to 7 meters.
Greenland’s ice sheet is the second largest mass of freshwater on the planet after Antarctic ice sheet. Massive ice sheets can melt rapidly when the air temperature is warm. But warmer ocean water is also eroding the ice sheet around the edges. A recent heatwave in that region recorded temperature more than 20 degrees Celsius above normal in northern Greenland.