Greenland ice loss is at 'worse-case scenario' levels, study finds
Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 13:40
in Earth & Climate
Irvine, Calif., Dec. 19, 2019 - Greenland is losing ice mass seven times faster than in the 1990s, a pace that matches the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's high-end warming scenario - in which 400 million people would be exposed to coastal flooding by 2100, 40 million more than in the mid-range prediction. The alarming update resulted from the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise, a project involving nearly 100 polar scientists from 50 international institutions, among them two from the University of California, Irvine.