On July 20th 2022, scientist reported that Greeland's ice sheet is melting. Scientists say that due to a temperature rise as high as 60 degree F, caused 6 billion tons of water a day from July15th through the 17th. According to Ted Scambos, senior research scientist at the University of Colorado's Earth Science and Observation Center, the amount released by the melt was enough to "cover West Virginia in a foot of water, 4 inches a day."
Scambos attributed the melt as the result of a warm air mass drifting over the Canadian Archipelago which is located noth of the Canadian Mainland. Greenland has had two other large scale ice melt in 2012 and again in 2019. Scambos said, "We can expect on the order 100 billio tons of water going into the ocean." Melting of Greeland's ice sheet has contributed to about half an inch of rise in sea level over the last 30 years.
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