Human-caused climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world, scientists said in an analysis released Wednesday.
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00:00Scientists said in an analysis released Wednesday that human-closed climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland's temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications of melting Arctic ice for weather worldwide.
00:19We found that even in today's climate, that is still a relatively rare event, so expected about once in a hundred years, which obviously doesn't mean it happens every hundred years, but in any given year, there's a 1% chance of such an event happening.
00:36But without human-induced climate change, such an event would have been basically impossible to occur.
00:43According to an analysis by a wild-weather attribution, the Greenland ice sheet melted many times faster than normal during the heat wave.
00:53With the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, a potential impact on the global ocean circulation, that basically is an extreme event that affects the whole world, even though most of the people on this planet won't have heard of this heat wave.
01:09Melting ice sheets and glaciers also contribute to sea-level rise that is threatening to flood coastlines globally and inundate low-lying island nations in the Pacific Ocean.
