With global warming, the island will lose much more, threatening coastal cities around the world.
"We wanted to get a long precise record of mass balance in Greenland that included the transition when the climate of the planet started to drift off natural variability, which occurred in the 1980s," study co-author Eric Rignot wrote in an email."The study places the recent evolution in a broader context to illustrate how dramatically the mass loss has been increasing in Greenland in response to climate warming.
Since 1972, ice loss from Greenland alone has added 13.7 millimeters to the global sea level, the study estimates. The island's ice sheet is the leading source of water added to the ocean every year.
Imagine a world without land.
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