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Why does it matter that Greenland is melting?

Why does it matter that Greenland is melting?

The Climate Question vor 2 Jahren

Ice loss caused by warming has serious implications for the Artic region and elsewhere

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Greenland is an island covered in a sheet of ice that is over 3km
thick in places, containing 7.4 metres of average global sea
level rise. Due to climate change, it’s melting at an astonishing
rate. We meet some of the people being forced to rapidly adapt
their traditional ways of life. And find out why ice loss means
sea level rises for elsewhere in the world – but the opposite for
the island itself

Joining presenter Graihagh Jackson are: • Mads Malik Fuglsang
Holm, reporter in Greenland • Twila Moon, deputy lead scientist
at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, University of Colorado,
USA

Email us : theclimatequestion@bbc.com

Producer: Ben Cooper Series Producers: Simon Watts and Alex Lewis
Editor: China Collins Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell Production
Coordinators: Debbie Richford, Sophie Hill and Jacqui Johnson