[:ja]地球温暖化の議論では、南極の氷床融解が注目されますが、欧州宇宙機関ESAの氷床観測衛星Cryosatにより、グリーンランドの融解した氷が海面上昇に与える影響が明確になりました（原文）。
2011~2014年の3年間にグリーンランドは1兆トンの氷床を失いましたが、これは毎年地球全体の0.75mmの海面上昇に寄与していることになり、過去20年間の平均値の2倍に相当するようです（解説動画）。
一方、マッケンジー・ファンク氏の「地球を「売り物」にする人たち―異常気象がもたらす不都合な「現実」」に描かれているように、3世紀にわたりデンマークの植民地だったグリーンランドが、石油と鉱物資源のブームを迎えようとしており、世界初の地球温暖化が生んだ国家になるという皮肉な側面もあります。
ウェブ地球儀で地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.29: Greenland Ice Loss
While everyone’s attention is drawn to Antarctic ice sheet, ESA’s CryoSat satellite reveals melting ice in Greenland has recently contributed twice as much to sea-level rise as the prior two decades (original link).
Between 2011 and 2014, Greenland lost 1 trillion tonnes of ice which corresponds to 0.75 mm contribution to global sea-level rise each year, twice the average of the preceding two decades (summary video).
As Mckenzie Funk describes in his book Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming, global warming cynically is about to give a rise to Greenland, a 3-dacade colony of Denmark with full of oil and natural resources.
See earthview photo gallery with web-globe: LiVEARTH[:en]While everyone’s attention is drawn to Antarctic ice sheet, ESA’s CryoSat satellite reveals melting ice in Greenland has recently contributed twice as much to sea-level rise as the prior two decades (original link).
Between 2011 and 2014, Greenland lost 1 trillion tonnes of ice which corresponds to 0.75 mm contribution to global sea-level rise each year, twice the average of the preceding two decades (summary video).
As Mckenzie Funk describes in his book Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming, global warming cynically is about to give a rise to Greenland, a 3-dacade colony of Denmark with full of oil and natural resources.
See earthview photo gallery with web-globe: LiVEARTH[:]