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Greenland ice sheet faces irreversible melting: Most detailed ever study of Greenland ice sheet warns of irreversible ice loss

2020-12-03 14:58:49, , ScienceDaily

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/People & Society/Social Issues & Advocacy/Green Living & Environmental Issues
/Science/Earth Sciences/Atmospheric Science
/Science/Ecology & Environment/Climate Change & Global Warming

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581

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65

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3.87 min

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Adept

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13th to 15th

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To avoid partially irreversible loss of the ice sheet, climate change must be reversed — not just stabilised — before we reach the critical point where the ice sheet has declined too far."

To study the ice-sheet, scientists from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science simulated the effects of Greenland ice sheet melting under a range of possible temperature rises, ranging from minimal warming to worst-case scenarios.

Under all future climates like the present or warmer, the ice-sheet declined in size and contributed to some degree of sea-level rise.

Importantly, there were scenarios in which the ice sheet melting could be reversed.

But, they rely on actions to counteract global warming before it's too late.

This is the first time that the Greenland ice-sheet has been studied in such detail, using a computer model that combines climate and ice-sheet models.

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Materials provided by University of Reading.

In addition, even if temperatures later return to current levels, scientists have shown that the Greenland ice sheet will never fully regrow once it melts beyond a critical point.

In a study published this week in The Cryosphere, researchers from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and University of Reading demonstrate how climate change could lead to irreversible sea level rise as temperatures continue to rise and the Greenland ice sheet continues to decline.

The massive ice sheet faces a point of no return, beyond which it will no longer fully regrow, permanently changing sea levels around the world.

The Greenland ice sheet is seven times the area of the UK, and stores a large amount of the Earth's frozen water.

Bangladesh, Florida, and eastern England are among many areas known to be particularly vulnerable.

Under scenarios in which global warming goes beyond 2°C, the Paris Agreement target, we should expect significant ice loss and several metres of global sea level rise to persist for tens of thousands of years, according to the new research.

Keywords
Climate, Oceanography, Snow and Avalanches, Floods, Ice Ages, Global Warming, Environmental Awareness, Environmental Issues

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