A new study claims we may have a very small opportunity to save Greenland's ice sheet from melting and raising sea levels.
Our planet’s ice sheets are melting. The glaciers found in Greenland and the Arctic are slowly melting, lowering their solidity as global temperatures continue to rise. Now, a new study claims that we may have a small window of opportunity to turn things around and save the melting ice sheet that covers Greenland. The vast ice sheet that covers most of Greenland has waned quite a bit over the past hundreds of thousands of years, and if it melts, it could raise sea levels an astonishing 20 feet.
This is above pre-industrial levels on Earth, and we’ve already warmed to about 2 Fahrenheit or 1.1 Celsius, reports indicate. This new study, though, claims we might have a bit more wiggle room than that when it comes to saving the Greenland ice sheet. The ice sheet, the researchers say, is more resilient than you might expect.
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