Greenland ice loss caused 40% of 2019 sea level rise

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More than half was due to high-pressure weather systems linked to global warming. FMTNews

In all, Greenland has shed about four trillion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2018.

Almost as alarming, however, as the icesheet’s accelerating disintegration are the forces driving it, the authors reported this week in The Cryosphere, a peer-reviewed journal published by the European Geosciences Union. Conditions were different, but no better in the northern and western parts of Greenland, due to warm, moist air pulled up from lower latitudes, the study showed.

Average temperatures in the Arctic region have risen two degrees Celsius since the mid-19th century, twice the global average.

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