Opinion | Greenland Loses 6 Billion Tons of Ice in 3 Days, Harbinger of Unprecedented Coastal Flooding

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Opinion | Greenland Loses 6 Billion Tons of Ice in 3 Days, Harbinger of Unprecedented Coastal Flooding
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'If all Greenland's ice melts, it would raise the seas by more than 24 feet.'

reported this week on a massive ice melt in Greenland, with on the order of 6 billion tons of ice lost in three days. The melting was because of a heat wave at the top of the world, caused by our burning coal, gasoline, and methane gas and spewing billions of tons of the dangerous heat-trapping gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

A heat wave in Greenland only makes it about 60 degrees F. , when most of us would still feel the need for a sweater. But ordinarily, according to a, “In July the average maximum daytime temperatures are cold and range from 6°C in KapTobin to 10°C in Angmagssalik. Nighttime temperatures generally drop to 2°C in Angmagssalik and 0°C in KapTobin. It is one of the warmest months of the year.

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