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The Climate Question: Why does it matter that Greenland is melting?

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05/11/2023 GMT

Why does it matter that Greenland is melting?

BBC World Service - The Climate Question, Why does it matter that Greenland is melting?

Ice loss caused by warming has serious implications for the Artic region and elsewhere

Greenland is covered by ice that is over 3km thick in places. Due to climate change it’s melting fast, causing sea level rises elsewhere – but the opposite for the island itself.

Greenland is an island covered in a sheet of ice that is over 3km thick in places, containing 7.4 metres of average global sea level rise.   
  
Due to climate change, it’s melting at an astonishing rate.  
  
We meet some of the people being forced to rapidly adapt their traditional ways of life.  And find out why ice loss means sea level rises for elsewhere in the world – but the opposite for the island itself

Joining presenter Graihagh Jackson are: 
•	Mads Malik Fuglsang Holm, reporter in Greenland  
•	Twila Moon, deputy lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, University of Colorado, USA 
 

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Producer: Ben Cooper 
Series Producers: Simon Watts and Alex Lewis 
Editor: China Collins 
Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell 
Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford, Sophie Hill and Jacqui Johnson

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