Snowfall that normally replenishes Greenland's glaciers each year can no longer keep up with the pace of ice melt, according to researchers at Ohio State University. That means that the Greenland ice sheet — the world's second-largest ice body — would continue to lose ice even if global temperatures stop rising.
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Greenland's ice is already the world's largest single contributor to sea-level rise. In just the next 80 years, its current melt rate would add another 2.75 inches to global sea levels, according to a study published in December.
I'm actually, genuinely terrified about the fact that several ecosystems around the world are about to, or have already reached their tipping point, while the most frequent discussion regarding climate change portrayed in the media is still about whether it exists or not.
Crazy how people are still questioning this shit. Almost like giving corporations way too much power and influence might have been a mistake.
Someone said this about coronavirus yesterday, but it's more true about climate change. We will have to end capitalism to solve climate change.
It will quite literally be "Socialism or Barbarism".
Always has been.
Climate change will destroy civilization in our lifetime.