Greenland's ice sheets hosts up to 3 million gigatons worth of water, trapping enough water to raise global sea levels by 7.42m.
A series of warm days has resulted in 6 gigatons of water (6 billion tons) being released into the ocean per day.
"Yesterday we could wander around in our T-shirts, that was not really expected."
- Kutalmis Saylam, Researcher
Both of the world's largest land-based ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica, are headed toward "worst-case scenario" forecasts, according to a study in Nature Climate Change.
"If ice sheet losses continue to track our worst-case climate warming scenarios, we should expect an additional 17cm of sea-level rise from the ice sheets alone. That's enough to double the frequency of storm-surge flooding in many of the world’s largest coastal cities,"
- Dr. Anna Hogg, University of Leeds
