Climate scientists say Greenland’s melting glaciers raise the risk of increased greenhouse gas emissions and rising sea levels.
According to satellite results, Greenland’s ice cover has decreased by 11 thousand square miles. This area is approximately equal to the size of Albania. The place of glaciers was taken by swamps, vegetation, and wastelands. Ridus.ru writes about this with reference to TheGuardian.
Vegetation monitoring since the 1980s showed an increase of 2.5 times (an increase of 33,774 square miles). The swampy area has quadrupled in size. These changes are the source of methane emissions.
According to scientific research, since the 70s of the last century, Greenland began to warm up twice as intensely as compared to the rest of the Earth’s surface. In the period from 2007 to 2012 it became higher by three degrees compared to the period from 1979 to 2000. The trend towards increasing the area occupied by plants continues.
According to Dr. Michael Grimes, melting glaciers and, accordingly, an increase in the area occupied by vegetation, negatively affects coastal waters. The balance of nutrients and sediments changes. These changes have an impact on the hunting activities of the local population, which has a large share of Greenland.
CNN reports that these processes negatively affect changes in the temperature balance on the planet.
Source: Rosbalt
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