How Greenland’s arctic landscape is at the heart of the climate crisis l GMA

ABC News’ James Longman reports from Greenland where the ice sheet is melting at a worrisome pace, which could have devastating effects on global sea levels.

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[ecbrandt]

Living in Greenland - And have lived in Kangerlussuaq, i can tell that the russel glacier is on retreat. Sad sight, on such a beautifull place.

[gosikh]

Most people are on a YOLO trip and don’t care.

This is what we are leaving behind to our kids and grandkids

[dannym]

If they found oil under the ice sheet what would be the outcome?

[Doug]

Adopting regenerative agriculture could improve the biodiversity in the soil across farmlands and act as carbon sink. The practice will also help soil retain more moisture to mitigate the impacts of climate change such as severe flooding and drought.

[GaasubaMeskhenet]

We were talking about this a decade ago and what have we done about it?

[mysticalskiessuriname]

Ice swimmer Lewis Pugh's stark climate warning: without polar ice, there is no life on earth. He is right, but some people just ignore facts. Too bad, because we all will suffer even the rich.

[mitchcumstein]

Greenland has melted before, the real problem with it melting is it’s effect on The Gulf Stream If the run off last year would have put Florida under 5cm of water, why didn’t it?!?!

[yggdrasil]

I've been saying this, ever since I saw Jeremy Rifkin's video on the water cycle. AGW is about the water cycle. And once it starts raining warm rain onto the GIS, owing to warmer temps in the Arctic and more open ocean, then we are going to be facing some pretty serious consequences.

[Thyalwaysseek]

In 2021, Antarctic sea ice is actually tracking well-above the multidecadal average, why no story on that ABC?

[douglasengle]

All current sea level rise is totally accountable by the expansion of sea water due to warming. About 70% of the earth is covered by oceans. The six foot rise of sea level from preindustrial times that is predicted for the year 2100 is based on the the expansion of sea water. There may be some contribution from melting ice in Greenland to sea level rise, but Denmark's analysis (which owns Greenland) indicates that Greenland has experienced increased precipitation causing some parts of Greenland to be gaining ice from increased snow. Only reporting on ice melt without reporting ice gain is a common occurrence in climate crisis reports. At the current rate of net ice loss it would take about 1000 years for Greenland to loose all its ice. Those rivers of ice melt are impressive, but they are drop in the bucket compared to Pacific, Atlantic along with the other oceans of the world having their water expand due to getting warmer.

[kimopuppy]

Only a fool pretends our home is not on fire

[charlie]

We need more trains and buses in the usa. Auto mobiles are the biggest problem.

[ginamicheleellihdavis]

How do you get the mud without disturbing the ice above it. Also, we would need a lot of it to transfer into every ocean.

[trackofpakistan]

Love from Pakistan. Sad sight on such a beautiful place

[uf]

It’s been happening for millions of years

[keithhutchins]

At least call it what it is it’s not mud it’s silt!

[hp]

2 miles thick of ice.. Yup we are so doomed... As long as they continue to agree they get paid..

[rubyredlopez]

What is the black layer on top of the ice? Is it Rubber particles that come off tires and circulates back there?

[joannastergiou]

Greenland is on my bucket list. What a beautiful place.

[couchcommandoiv]

Physics of water means that ice melting does not raise water level, it's the increase in temperature that expands the molecules which increases water volume, raising sea level