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Climate change: Greenland lost 2 billion tons of ice yesterday, which is very unusual
By Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologist

Over 40% of Greenland experienced melting yesterday, with total ice loss estimated to be more than 2 gigatons (a gigaton is equal to 1 billion tons).

While Greenland is a big island filled with lots of ice, it is highly unusual for that much ice to be lost in the middle of June. The average "melt season" for Greenland runs from June to August, with the bulk of the melting occurring in July.

To visualize how much ice that is, imagine filling the National Mall in Washington DC with enough ice to reach a point in the sky eight times higher than the Washington Monument (to borrow an analogy Meredith Nettles from Columbia University gave to the Washington Post.)

Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/climate-change-greenland-lost-2-billion-tons-of-ice-yesterday-which-is-very-unusual/ar-AACTn2M

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If President Obama had given us a Carbon Tax  this Climate Crisis would not be ongoing.

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If President Obama had given us a Carbon Tax  this Climate Crisis would not be ongoing.

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Good grief it's summer and the ice melts.  I wonder how many billions of tons were gained during the winter.


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Greenland shedding ice in the springtime. How shocking.
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