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Not really. The 200GT/year is about 0.008% of the total mass of the ice sheet in Greenland. At this rate, Greenland will be ice-free in about 12500 years. The l
by credit_guy 8y ago
Not really. The 200GT/year is about 0.008% of the total mass of the ice sheet in Greenland. At this rate, Greenland will be ice-free in about 12500 years. The last ice age ended 11700 years ago [1], and at the time the Greenland ice sheet was many times larger than today. What that means is the average annual ice loss since the last ice age ended was higher than the current 200 GT/year.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation