In what could be another alarming evidence of global warming, Greenland has reportedly lost a massive amount of ice in recent years.
The land mass has lost 1 trillion tons of ice between 2011 and 2014, as per the findings published in Geophysical Research Letters science journal.
A team used data gathered from European Space Agency’s CryoSat satellite to conduct the study and found that the Greenland ice melt had resulted in a 2.5-millimeter rise in sea levels in just four years.
The shocking thing is prior to 2011, it took 20 years for sea levels to rise half as much. It took 9 centuries for Greenland to lose 9 tons of ice, but the last one just took 4 years. Now this a rise for concern. According to Tribune Chicago, Greenland is responsible for 10% of overall rise in sea levels since the 1990s.
Scientists predict that the sea levels will rise by six feet by the end of 2100. However, these model predictions do not consider feedbacks that can speed up the process. Considering this, the scientists believe the sea levels will rise even more.
