The recharge of the Greenland Ice Sheet is grossly less and in some areas absent. So, basically, all the ice melt viewed in this video and more is directly contributing to sea-level rise. NOW. This is happening now. The content of the film is from last year. This year is happening now and directly contributing to sea-level rise as I write this.
By Bill Whitaker
Now an update on a story (click here) we first reported 15 years ago. That's when Scott Pelley went north to the Greenland Ice Shelf to witness a "Global Warning" -- the melting Arctic.
"What I'm standing on is a huge block of ice that split off from the glacier recently and dropped into the sea," Pelley reported. "It's a big iceberg at this point. This part of Greenland is melting faster than just about any other. And to get a sense of the enormity of what's happening, consider this: The ice that is melting here is the equivalent of all of the ice in the Alps."
"What I'm standing on is a huge block of ice that split off from the glacier recently and dropped into the sea," Pelley reported. "It's a big iceberg at this point. This part of Greenland is melting faster than just about any other. And to get a sense of the enormity of what's happening, consider this: The ice that is melting here is the equivalent of all of the ice in the Alps."
"And just four minutes after we cleared off this berg," Pelley said. "Our ice joined in."...
