In the new study, published in Nature Climate Change, glaciologists found that regardless of any future fossil fuel pollution, warming to date will cause the Greenland ice sheet to shed 3.3 percent of its volume, committing 27.4 centimetres to sea level rise
Icebergs float in the Baffin Bay near Pituffik, Greenland on July 20, 2022 as captured during an airborne NASA mission along with Univesity of Texas scientists to measure melting Arctic sea ice. Image: Kerem Y¸cel / AFP