Sea Level Rise

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Greenland unraveling rapidly as feedback loops bring the ice sheet closer to the tipping point

DailyKos Greenland Melting 5/06/2019

Feedback loops make the problem of a warming Arctic that much worse and according to Thomas Growther, a professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science of ETH Zurich,  “It’s already begun, the feedback is in process”. Yahoo news, reports that “carbon dioxide and methane emissions from thawing soils are “accelerating climate change about 12 to 15 percent at the moment,” and said past IPCC reports that left out the feedback “were way more optimistic than they should have been.”