Greenland records hottest climate in a thousand years, study finds

“This confirms the bad news that unfortunately we already know, (it is) clear that we need to keep this warming under control to prevent the melting of Greenland“, Bo Mollesoe Vinther, professor of climate physics at the University of Copenhagen, told AFP.

By drilling into the layers to obtain samples of snow and ice from hundreds of years ago, scientists were able to reconstruct what temperatures were like in the north and center of the Earth. Greenland from the year 1.000 AD until 2011.

The results – published in the scientific journal Nature – show that the warming recorded in the decade between 2001 and 2011 “almost certainly exceeds the range of pre-industrial and last millennium temperature variability”.

During this decade, the temperature was “on average 1,5ºC warmer than in the XNUMXth century”, revealed the study.

Heat caused by climate change causes sled dogs to 'disappear' from Greenland

As temperatures rise and sea ice melts, lifestyles are changing as quickly as the climate in the region. In winter, locals used to travel across the ice to fish with a sled pulled by their dogs. But this is no longer possible, as the sea no longer freezes like it used to.

The melting of ice Greenland It is already the main cause of rising sea levels, which threatens the lives of millions of people living in coastal areas that could be submerged in the coming decades or centuries.

The polar cap of Greenland it is currently the main driver of ocean growth, according to NASA, and the Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the planet.

Arctic suffers from rapid climate change

More than 140 scientists from eleven countries analyzed rapid climate change and the impacts on communities, the economy and the world. One of the most remarkable achievements was that of the Greenland ice sheet, which lost ice in 2022, the 25th consecutive year of loss.

“The signs of global warming that we see around the world are also in these remote parts of the Earth's ice sheet. Greenland”, explained Vinther. “We need to stop this before we get to the point where there is a vicious cycle of self-sustaining ice melt. Greenland“, he warned.

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