Climate change continues to advance dangerously and now it is the Greenland area that has suffered its consequences. The high temperatures that this area has suffered during this year have caused the thaw to start much earlier than normal.
According to experts on the subject, Greenland has suffered the highest temperatures in its history which explains the thaw problem.
The southeastern part of Greenland has had an average temperature throughout the summer of 8 degrees Celsius, this temperature is the highest in history and is 2 degrees above the usual average for this time of year. The same has happened in the north and south of Greenland since there has been temperatures that are well above the usual ones.
During this year 2016, the thaw has occurred throughout the month of April when the normal thing is that it occurs in the months of June and JulyTherefore, it is fully proven that the extremely high temperatures that Greenland has suffered this year have been the cause of such an early and worrying thaw.
This thaw is really worrying and more serious than it really seems since the ice sheet that covers all of Greenland is one of the most important factors for the rise in sea level. That is why in the event that said ice sheet melts completely, the sea level would rise about 7 meters causing a real catastrophe in every way. Although this is something unlikely to happen especially in the short and medium term, scientific data indicate that in the last 10 years Greenland has lost twice as much ice sheet as in the entire XNUMXth century.