Greenland ice melting past 'tipping point': study

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Greenland ice melting past 'tipping point': study

Snowfall is no longer able to compensate for the loss of ice, say researchers

Published: August 17, 2020 21:03 AFP and compiled by Karishma Nandkeolyar

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The melting of Greenland's ice cap has gone so far that it is now irreversible, with snowfall no longer able to compensate for the loss of ice even if global warming were to end today, according to researchers. "Greenland's glaciers have passed a tipping point of sorts, where the snowfall that replenishes the ice sheet each year cannot keep up with the ice that is flowing into the ocean from glaciers," said a statement from Ohio State University, where several authors of a study published August 13 in Communications Earth and Environment are based. | Above: , a piece of ice floats near Kulusuk (also spelled Qulusuk), a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality located on the island of the same name on the southeastern shore of Greenland. Image Credit: AFP

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