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scrAPES 18- Greenland's Melting Ice Problem May Be Far Worse Than We Realized.
By: Lydia O'Connor
Published: 1/5/16

     This article talks about how Greenland's ice sheet is worse and is melting. Rising Global Temperatures is whats causing the Greenland's ice sheet to melt. If for some reason the entire ice sheet where to melt, then global sea levels where to rise up to 23 feet. The large amounts of melt water from the warm and summer days filled up the firn's pores and hardened into a layer of ice. Sadly melt water couldn't be absorbed by the firn making the ice sheet melt and shrink at the same time.

     The reason why I chose this article is because if the Greenland ice sheet where to melt then global sea levels can rise. I personally don't want that to happen because it will cause lots of chaos and destruction. 23 feet is a lot and if water where to rise that high then we all would be screwed.

     This article is important to environmental science because it shows how climate change is affecting a variety of things such as ice sheets melting. Maybe what we can do is stop doing all of these negative things that are affecting climate change even worse.