Over 40% of Greenland experienced melting on Thursday, with total ice loss estimated to be more than 2 billion tons
While Greenland is a big island filled with lots of ice, it is highly unusual for that much ice to be lost in the middle of June. The average"melt season" for Greenland runs from June to August, with the bulk of the melting occurring in July.
The high melt is unusual so early in the season but not unprecedentedhttps://t.co/Ftg0fkC7AK pic.twitter.com/Y4jQ1FoFRZ — Greenland June 14, 2019 The sudden spike in melting"is unusual, but not unprecedented," according to Thomas Mote, a research scientist at the University of Georgia who studies Greenland's climate."It is comparable to some spikes we saw in June of 2012," Mote told CNN, referring to the record-setting melt year of 2012 that saw almost the entire ice sheet experience melting for the first time in recorded history.
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