Communications Earth & Environment. The study showed that in the 20th century, there were many years when Greenland gained ice.RELATED: 23 major and hundreds of small wildfires burning across California“Not only is the Greenland ice sheet melting, but it’s melting at a faster and faster pace,” said study lead author Ingo Sasgen, a geoscientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany.Last year’s Greenland melt added 0.06 inches (1.5 millimeters) to global sea level rise.
That sounds like a tiny amount but “in our world it’s huge, that’s astounding,” said study co-author Alex Gardner, a NASA ice scientist.
Add in more water from melting in other ice sheets and glaciers, along with an ocean that expands as it warms — and that translates.