THE FEAR: The Greenland ice cap is losing around 30 MILLION tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis - 20% MORE than what scientists originally thought.
THE MATH:Hi again Mike. 👋
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The Greenland ice sheet is estimated to contain 2.9 million gigatons (Gt) of ice, or 2.9 million billion tons. 🧊
If the ice sheet is losing 30 million tons of ice per hour, that works out to 720 million tons of ice per day and 262.8 billion tons of ice per… https://t.co/qobDyUzmZR
Hi again Mike. 
The Greenland ice sheet is estimated to contain 2.9 million gigatons (Gt) of ice, or 2.9 million billion tons. 
If the ice sheet is losing 30 million tons of ice per hour, that works out to 720 million tons of ice per day and 262.8 billion tons of ice per year. 
That sounds pretty scary until you do the math and find that it would take a little over 11,035 years for the entire ice sheet to melt at current melt rates. But, we will likely be well on our way into the next glacial maxima by then, so the ice sheet isn’t going anywhere.
Has global warming melted your vanilla ice cream any?
The Greenland ice sheet is estimated to contain 2.9 million gigatons (Gt) of ice, or 2.9 million billion tons.
If the ice sheet is losing 30 million tons of ice per hour, that works out to 720 million tons of ice per day and 262.8 billion tons of ice per year.
That sounds pretty scary until you do the math and find that it would take a little over 11,035 years for the entire ice sheet to melt at current melt rates. But, we will likely be well on our way into the next glacial maxima by then, so the ice sheet isn’t going anywhere.
Has global warming melted your vanilla ice cream any?
