IN 1,000 YEARS, STUDY SHOWS
Temperature in Greenland warmest in 1,000 years, on the natural world underscoring the growing impact of human-driven climate change according to the New Data.
On Wednesday in the scientific journal a study published has found that the temperature have risen 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average since 1995. In the samples taken from Greenland’s ice cores, ice sheets and glaciers, have warmed substantially.
“From 1990s and 2011, we keep on (seeing) rising temperatures,” said the study’s lead author Maria Hoerhold, a glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany. “A clear signature of global warming we have now.”
Due to fossil fuel consumption releases carbon into atmosphere which warms the planet, Governments have been warned by some scientists yet to make the changes required to avert the worst repercussions of global warming.
By 2050 many world’s most famous glaciers could disappear as the planet warms, a United Nation report found in November. Across the 50 World Heritage sites, more than 18,600 glaciers, by mid-century about one third are expected to vanish.
Two-third of the world’s glaciers are expected to disappear by 2100 another study found.
Information about changes in temperature about long-term, which reveals by Greenland’s ice cores, take time to analyze.
In 1995 last the data has been updated and previously suggested that as quickly as the rest of the Arctic region, Greenland was not warming.
However, in 2011 the new analyzed cores was taken, which shows a sharp rise over the last 15 years.
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