Tuesday July 30 was a particularly bad melt day in Greenland, which can be seen at some of the charts at this link:
This article sums up some of the issues pretty well:
*"....In the 1980s, wintertime snows in Greenland roughly balanced summertime melt from the ice sheet, and the conventional wisdom among scientists was that it might take thousands of years for the ice to completely melt under pressure from global warming.
"That’s all changed now.
"With a decade or two of hindsight, scientists now believe Greenland passed an important tipping point around 2003, and since then its melt rate has more than quadrupled...."*
JULY 31, 2019 3:14PM ET
Greenland Is Melting Away Before Our Eyes
“I have my fingers crossed for it not being washed away”
[rollingstone.com]
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@AncientNight It all comes down to greed.
@AstralSmoke It all comes down to every one of us not paying attention and getting our priorities all screwed up. Human population is the core issue and we have started drawing down our limited resources. Blaming is easy but all of us taking some personal responsibility is hard.
@JackPedigo Oh, I see how careless we are. I try to minimize my impact, but it's still an impact, but much less than most. It doesn't pay to play the blame game. We're all in it for the ride.
@AstralSmoke I just read an article in the paper about how many European travelers are foregoing traveling by plane and opting by rail. A new word has been coined by the Swedes: "flygskam" or flight shame. It was reported that one average flight can erase all one's hard work to live sustainability. The record heat waves in Europe have highlighted the issue of Climate Change. Unlike, the US, Europeans get it.
@JackPedigo Yes, definitely more than here.
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