ST: Greenland ice melts at highest rate since 1958: US

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In this July 19, 2007 file photo, an iceberg is seen melting off the coast of Ammasalik, Greenland. -- PHOTO: AP
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WASHINGTON - GREENLAND'S ice sheet melted the most it has in over a half century last year, US government scientists said on Tuesday in one of a series of 'unmistakable' signs of climate change.

'The world continues to warm,' the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a briefing paper for reporters. 'Multiple indicators, same bottom-line conclusion: consistent and unmistakable signal from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the oceans.'

An annual climate survey, which includes work by scientists from 45 countries, said that ice sheet in Greenland melted at its highest rate since at least 1958, when similar data first became available.

Arctic sea ice shrank to its third smallest area on record, while the world's alpine glaciers shrank for the 20th straight year, the study said. In line with previous studies, the survey said that 2010 was also one of the hottest years on record.

Last year was either tied for the hottest or the second hottest on record, depending on methodology. But all methodologies used showed the temperature to be at least 0.5 deg C above the average recorded in the three decades through 1990.

The survey noted that 2010 was exceptional for its extreme events, including a deadly heat wave in Russia, floods in Pakistan that displaced more than 20 million people and record snowfall in several US cities. -- AFP

This is taken from The Straits Times
Web link: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking...ry_685164.html

[melrocksit]

I have heard of that recently and it is really shocking and bad because it shows how the nature system collapsed throughout the years of us using all its sources.