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2019/08/01-Petermann Fjord, West Greenland. The Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to raise global sea level by 7 meters, and though this would occur over 100s to 1,000s of years, even small increases in freshwater input to the ocean can have surprising impacts, potentially triggering changes in global ocean circulation that transports heat and maintains familiar climate patterns. And we know that sea level is rising; island nations in the south Pacific are losing land, and storm surges are exacerbated by higher levels, as we saw during hurricane’s Katrina in New Orleans and Sandy in New York and New Jersey. Greenland's ice sheet dumps more than 280 billion metric tons of melting ice into the ocean each year, making it the greatest single contributor to global sea level rise. Greenland's ice sheet has melted to a point of no return, and efforts to slow global warming will not stop it from disintegrating.

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Annual Amundsen Expedition
2019/08/01-Petermann Fjord, West Greenland. The Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to raise global sea level by 7 meters, and though this would occur over 100s to 1,000s of years, even small increases in freshwater input to the ocean can have surprising impacts, potentially triggering changes in global ocean circulation that transports heat and maintains familiar climate patterns. And we know that sea level is rising; island nations in the south Pacific are losing land, and storm surges are exacerbated by higher levels, as we saw during hurricane’s Katrina in New Orleans and Sandy in New York and New Jersey. Greenland's ice sheet dumps more than 280 billion metric tons of melting ice into the ocean each year, making it the greatest single contributor to global sea level rise. Greenland's ice sheet has melted to a point of no return, and efforts to slow global warming will not stop it from disintegrating.