UPDATE ON AUG 24, 12:45 PM IST
The dreadful effect of the rising temperature of the Earth is coming to the fore in many ways. Somewhere the snowy mountains have to be covered with cloth to prevent them from melting, so now it has rained for the first time in history on its highest peak in Greenland.
The dreadful effect of the rising temperature of the Earth is coming to the fore in many ways. Somewhere the snowy mountains have to be covered with cloth to prevent them from melting, so now it has rained for the first time in history on its highest peak in Greenland.
This peak is more than 10 thousand feet high According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), this highest peak in Greenland is 10,551 feet high and it has never rained before. Due to this rain on August 14, the temperature here had exceeded the freezing point for the third time in the last 10 years. Earlier, due to rain in the surrounding areas, the temperature here had gone above zero.The rain on the summit melted the snow of nine lakh square kilometers. This process of melting snow continued on a large scale for about 4 days. NSIDC researcher Ted Scambos has said that such rain had never happened before in history on this 10,551 feet high peak.
As much snow as several weeks melted in one day
The amount of snow that the rain has melted in a day, it melts here in several weeks. Ted Scambos also said that in the last 15 to 20 years, there has been so much change in the climate here that it has become difficult to get an accurate estimate about the temperature or rainfall here. The current situation has become very dangerous for the snowy areas. Earlier in July, there was a massive snow melt in Greenland.
20 feet of water will rise in all the seas
Greenland is a very large snowy area. The amount of ice spread in it can be estimated from the fact that if all the ice in Greenland melts, then the water level of the whole world will rise by 20 feet. Due to this many islands and countries will be submerged. At the same time, it is also difficult to estimate the damage caused by it.