Greenland is Melting

Ice melt found across 97 percent of Greenland, satellites show

Very recently, NBC news reported that an unprecedented amount of ice has melted in Greenland. According to the article “Over four days, Greenland's ice sheet -- which covers 683,000 square miles -- went from 40 percent in thaw to nearly entirely in thaw.” This, to me, is very shocking and has completely changed my opinions on global warming and our emission of greenhouse gases.

                               Satellite image with 40% of Greenland covered in ice taken June 8 (left), Greenland                      

                               after rapid thawing (right).

On another note, I thought it was interesting that the article quoted a NASA employee who works at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA we read about in Kuletz’ Tainted Desert. The development in this “science city” could have developed technology that caused this pollution, but hopefully it can play a big part in solving our global warming problem.