Pips@lemmy.sdf.org to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoGreenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study revealswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1265cross-posted to: collapse@lemmy.mlscience@lemmy.worldclimate@slrpnk.neteurope@feddit.de
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minus-squarelntl@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 months agoI did the math on this recently: GL has approx 3 million Gt of ice and is losing it at a rate approx equal to 260 Gt/yr. If that rate is constant (unlikely) the first ice free summer in GL will be in 13,500 CE
minus-squarelntl@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoif you add a term, I’ll include it and update the post
I did the math on this recently: GL has approx 3 million Gt of ice and is losing it at a rate approx equal to 260 Gt/yr.
If that rate is constant (unlikely) the first ice free summer in GL will be in 13,500 CE
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if you add a term, I’ll include it and update the post