Greenland's Extreme Melt, 1 Year Later

Last spring, NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew over one of Greenland’s earliest melt seasons on record. This year, the melt is progressing more typically, despite warm temperatures in the Arctic. Brooke Medley reflects on the differences between 2019 and 2020 melt in Greenland.

Music credit: "White Lights" from Universal Production Music

Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Kathleen Gaeta (NASA): Lead Producer
Jefferson Beck (USRA): Lead Videographer
Brooke Medley (NASA): Scientist

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[notyou]

How about this season, 2022? See anything you wanna talk about?

[u.s.a.citizen]

hmmmm. They just gained 24 gigatons of ice... adding to ice sheet....

[Lakutus]

It is getting colder not warmer we need more CO2 and nature needs it to so all this talk abnout less CO2 will fk us up!

[margrietoregan]

Why were you showing ground level streams ??

[peaceman]

A 40 year record of anything isn't representative.

[DustinBarlowP]

Whoever can get up there and buy a shitload of land dirt cheap will be billionaires in 100 years.

[scsirob]

0.017% more melt than average this year. Let's all panic, ok?

[sagarpandeys]

Earth is warming up much faster than we anticipated

[treright]

yall dont get it, you aint killing me

[eurlovegisbert]

Everyone knows what's coming, some like you tell about it, but meanwhile is coming, people remind that no one can't stop it.

[crnigruja]

Naša planeta "Zemlja" je čudo! Pazimo, čuvajmo je, da bi priroda i bića na našoj planeti opstala! Hoćemo da budemo Igramo se Bogom, koji je sve stvorio!!! Izvinjavam se što sam ušla na TUĐI sajt, tehnički sam nepismena. Ja sam pesnik, oprostite! Molim Vas!!!

[rodmac]

Maybe those new Vikings can get back to farming Greenland 0:11

[timgrindley]

Oh my fucjing god, no change at all. nothing to see here.

[MrMarkar]

funny how some people go to school and read books for a few years and know everything about billions of years of life cycle of s planet. thankfully, , everybody dies and new booksmart people evolve into brilliant globs of walking dead.

[eurlovegisbert]

See level rice isn't as important as what temperature will increase when not enough ice to melt

[joshuaelliott]

Ever eat something and it was basic and bland that's this video

[RK-vexp]

Good news. Green land is going to green sooner.

[saschaesken]

Green land absorbs a lot more carbondioxide.

[saintracheljarodm.holy-kay]

Unfortunately this is what I predicted, and 2050 is a critical benchmark.