The melting in Greenland warns against the change …

On June 13, Steffen Olsen took a viral photo that set the tone for the nature of climate change: a group of dogs pulls a sled in a Greenland fjord and the animals move on melted ice. At this time of year, spring in the northern hemisphere, temperatures are barely above three degrees Celsius, so the image of the Inglefield Bredning fjord triggered an alert in the scientific community. Last week, almost at the same time as the photo was taken, a maximum of 17.3º was recorded.

Olssen himself said that fishermen in the area had told him that they had never seen so much ice melting, although it is common that there is no water here. Water on the ice at this time of the year. In fact, the highest temperatures, and therefore the thaw, occur in July.

"This image of Greenland brings to our face the urgency that we face.Governments and society must work together to limit the consequences of the climate crisis.The realization of this situation is in our hands, we can not not take a step back. "This was shared on Twitter by the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.

Due to the premature melting of ice, the balance between the temperature and the salinity of the seawater is altered by the freshwater glaciers, which can affect the ocean currents.

Last January, a study revealed that between 2003 and 2013, Greenland ice melted four times faster, which "could accelerate sea level rise". The study was published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), published weekly by the US Academy of Sciences.

Until now, the main concern was thawing in the southeast and northeast of the island. However, during the period badyzed, most of the Greenland ice was lost to the southwest, where there are virtually no glaciers.

The conclusion is that there is a direct relationship with the increase in temperature in the world, for which southwestern Greenland could become a determining factor of the increase in the level of water. ;water.

Due to the melting, the shores of Miami and New York, as well as those of Shanghai and Bangladesh, could be affected by sea level rise resulting from the melting.

One of the authors of the study, Michael Bevis, believes that the reduction of the ice sheet reaches a "turning point" and that it is "too late" to solve the problem. According to him, "the only thing to do is to adapt and mitigate a bigger global warming: it is too late for it to have any effect".