In Iceland, about 11 billion tonnes of ice melts away every year. Scientists fear all of the island country’s 400-plus glaciers will be gone by 2200. In 1890, the Okjokull glacier ice covered 16 sq km, but by 2012, it measured just 0.7 sq. Km, according to a report from the University of Iceland from 2017.
In 2014 glaciologists decided this was no longer a living glacier, it was only dead ice since it was not moving. To be called a glacier, the mass of ice and snow must be thick enough to move by its own weight. For that to happen the mass must be approximately 40 to 50 metres (130 to 165 feet) thick. “Even if we could stop introducing greenhouse gases into atmosphere right now, it will keep on warming for a century and a half or two centuries before it reaches equilibrium.”
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