{"id":115572,"date":"2023-07-21T07:56:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T04:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/greenland-melted-recently-says-study-that-raises-future-sea-level-threat\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T07:56:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T04:56:51","slug":"greenland-melted-recently-says-study-that-raises-future-sea-level-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/greenland-melted-recently-says-study-that-raises-future-sea-level-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland melted recently, says study that raises future sea level threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115572\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nA mile-thick ice sheet in Greenland vanished around 416,000 years ago during a period of moderate natural warming, driving global sea rise to levels that would spell catastrophe for coastal regions today, a study said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The results overturn a long-held view that the world\u2019s largest island was an impregnable fortress of ice over the past 2.5 million years, and instead show it will be far more vulnerable to human-caused climate change than previously thought. \u201cIf we want to understand the future, we need to understand the past,\u201d University of Vermont scientist Paul Bierman, who co-led the paper published in Science, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The research relied on an ice core extracted 4,560 feet (1,390 meters) under the surface of Northwest Greenland by scientists at Camp Century, a secretive US military base that operated in the 1960s. This 12-foot long tube of soil and rock was lost in a freezer only to be rediscovered in 2017. Scientists were stunned to learn it contained not just sediment but leaves and moss \u2014 irrefutable evidence of an ice-free landscape, perhaps covered by an ancient forest that woolly mammoths would have roamed.<\/p>\n<p>Though researchers were deprived for decades of access to the precious sample, Bierman said in some ways it was \u201cprovidential,\u201d as the cutting-edge techniques used to date the core are very recent. Key among these is \u201cluminescence dating,\u201d which allowed scientists to determine the last time that sediment buried beneath the Earth\u2019s surface was exposed to light. \u201cAs sediment is buried beneath the surface, background radiation from soil fills in the little holes or imperfections in minerals like quartz or feldspar, and builds up what we call a luminescence signal over time,\u201d co-author Drew Christ told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>In a dark room, scientists took interior strips of the ice core and exposed them to blue-green or infrared light, releasing trapped electrons that form a kind of ancient clock that shows the last time they were exposed to sunlight, which erases the luminescence signal. \u201cAnd the only way to do that at Camp Century is to remove a mile of ice,\u201d said Tammy Rittenour, a co-author of the study at Utah State University. \u201cPlus, to have plants, you have to have light.\u201d Luminescence dating provided the end point of the ice-free period, with the start point coming from another technique.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the quartz from the Camp Century core, rare forms \u2014 called isotopes \u2014 of the elements beryllium and aluminum build up when the ground is exposed to the sky and cosmic rays. Looking at the ratio of the normal forms of these elements to the rare isotopes, the scientists could derive a window for how long the rocks were at the surface versus how long they were buried.<\/p>\n<p>They found the sediment was exposed for less than 14,000 years, meaning this was how long the area was ice-free. The Camp Century core was taken only 800 miles from the North Pole, with the study showing the entire region would have been covered in vegetation. This took place in a time of natural warming called an interglacial period, when temperatures were similar to today, around 1.8-2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1-1.5C) warmer than the pre-industrial era.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s modeling showed that the ice sheet melting would have caused between five and twenty feet of sea level rise at that time. This suggests that every coastal region of the world, home to many global population centers, are at risk of submersion in the coming centuries. Joseph MacGregor, a climate scientist at NASA who was not involved in the study, noted that the interglacial period that warmed Greenland during this period lasted tens of thousands of years, much longer than what humans have induced so far. But even so, \u201cwe\u2019ve far surpassed the magnitude of the greenhouse gas forcing back then,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Atmospheric levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide are currently 420 parts per million (ppm) against 280 ppm during Greenland\u2019s ice-free period, and this will remain in the skies for thousands of years. \u201cWe\u2019re doing a giant experiment on Earth\u2019s atmosphere, and we don\u2019t know the results of that experiment,\u201d said Bierman. \u201cI don\u2019t take that as \u2018Oh my god the sky is falling,\u2019 I take that as we\u2019ve got to get it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/greenland-melted-recently-says-study-that-raises-future-sea-level-threat\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/greenland-melted-recently-says-study-that-raises-future-sea-level-threat\/\">Greenland melted recently, says study that raises future sea level threat<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,1680,1106,2485,6188,1018],"class_list":["post-115572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-future","tag-greenland","tag-melt","tag-sea-level","tag-threat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}