Scientists say Greenland ice sheet experienced its biggest melt of the summer in 2019. More than 10 billion tons of surface ice melted into the ocean. Greenland’s ice sheet usually melts during the summer, but melting begins at the end of May. This year it came very early. Melting went on continuously for four months. The temperature recorded was on all-time high. There was a heat wave throughout Europe and it reached the Arctic, and this triggered one of Greenland’s biggest ice-melts since 1950. Meteorologists have reported that globally, 2019 July has been as hot as any month in recorded history.
Greenland’s ice sheet is the second biggest in the world and this season’s ice melt has already contributed around half a millimetre to global sea levels.
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