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Summer has not arrived yet, but temperatures are already climbing in Greenland. As a result, the melting of the ice is particularly precocious this year, 2019 could also beat the record of 2012 melting Arctic sea ice.
A striking illustration of early ice melting: a photograph taken by a Danish scientist, an unreal photograph that has been circulating around the world. Facing mountains without snow and under a desperately blue sky, a team of sled dogs seems to be walking on an emerald water.
No photo montage here, this shot taken by the Danish researcher Steffen Olsen in the Inglefield fjord in northwestern Greenland is very real.
These sled dogs, who should normally run on the ice floe, end up wading in a 5-6 cm layer of water. A spectacular image that illustrates the early melting of ice , a seasonal phenomenon but this year is three weeks ahead and disrupts the way of life of local people.
Record mass loss
Temperatures are abnormally high in the region. Scientists expect a record loss of mass for pack ice in June. A recent study shows that melting ice is accelerating in Greenland. The sea ice is melting six times faster today than in the 1980s with dramatic consequences on the level of the oceans.
The last realized baseline estimate of the Giec estimated the worst-case scenario at nearly one meter of sea-level rise at the end of the twenty-first century.