Climate protesters in Paris, December 12, 2015. Demotix/ Jo Syz. All rights reserved.Not long before the start of the Paris COP21 climate change talks, whose intended aim was to produce a comprehensive strategy for addressing and hopefully solving the "unchecked climate change" problem, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a study that is so shocking it should have made world leaders and delegates attending the conference lose sleep at night.
The study showed that a huge Greenland glacier “broke loose from a glaciologically stable position in 2012 and entered a phase of accelerated retreat,” A huge Greenland glacier “broke loose from a glaciologically stable position in 2012 and entered a phase of accelerated retreat”. an unexpected and ominous development. The glacier “holds enough water to raise global sea level by more than 18 inches (46 centimeters) if it were to melt completely. And now it's on a crash diet, losing 5 billion tons of mass every year. All that ice is crumbling into the North Atlantic Ocean.” Waleed Abdalati, a co-author and senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. raised the level of concern about what is happening to our planet by adding that, "Other glaciers have thinned by over a meter a year, which we believe is too much to be attributed to melting alone. We think there is a dynamic effect in which the glaciers are accelerating due to warming."
