It rained for the first time at the summit of Greenland's ice sheet.

[Ilsa]

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/rained-first-time-summit-greenlands-ice-sheet-rcna1723

Rain fell for several hours at the highest point on the Greenland ice sheet last week — the first rainfall event in recorded history at a location that rarely creeps above freezing temperatures.

Scientists confirmed Wednesday that rain was observed Saturday at Summit Station, a research facility that sits atop the Greenland ice sheet and is operated year-round by the National Science Foundation. It was the first report of rain at the normally frigid summit, and it marks only the third time in less than a decade that above-freezing temperatures were recorded at the Arctic research station, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

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Greenland's sprawling 656,000-square-mile ice sheet expands and contracts as part of natural yearly variations, but global warming is causing glacial ice to melt at a rapid pace. Some climate models suggest that without aggressive climate interventions, the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in the summers by 2050.

The consequences of that would be catastrophic. If Greenland's ice sheet were to completely melt, scientists have said global sea levels could rise more than 20 feet, affecting coastal communities around the world and submerging low-lying cities such as Shanghai, Amsterdam and New York.

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[EndlessWire]

1. Not good.

This is objective information and indicative of some major change that is coming, but we will ignore it as usual. G-d help us.

[Scrivener7]

2. We're so screwed.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. This makes me so sad. nt

[NickB79]

6. About as cool as a manmade ecological catastrophe can be

And by that, I mean, not at all.

Welcome to the start of the worst mass extinction event since the dinosaurs were wiped out.

[NickB79]

5. The Arctic will be ice free long before 2050

I give it 2030 for ice free summers

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Yeah that whole section doesn't even make any sense. Greenland is not the Arctic Ocean (nt)

[dalton99a]

8. Kick