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Peterman Glacier Photo: Andreas Muenchow, University of Delaware Associated Press: Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a hole taller than the Washington Monument at the bottom of one of Greenland’s major glaciers in the last couple years, accelerating the retreat of a crucial part of the glacier, a new study found. And scientists worry that…
a massive glacier in greenland appears to be melting faster than even thought. that could speed up the rise in sea levels. they found the peterman glacier is melting away with ocean s tides. in recent years, two holes were formed big enough to put two statues of liberty stacked on top of each other. how the sea temperatures are highest on record. and scientists fear it s another alarming trend in the climate kra crisis. the biden administration wants to make it easier for airline passengers to deal with flight delays and cancellations. it is proposing that airlines compensate travelers. that could include meals and lodging. in some countries, these rules are already in place. and president biden acknowledges the u.s. is lagging behind.
A huge chunk of ice that recently broke of from Greenland is reportedly now breaking into pieces. The Manhattan-sized piece of ice – dubbed PII-2012 by officials from Nasa –broke free from the edge of Greenland’s massive Peterman Glacier in July.
the greenland ice sheet is losing nearly 300 gigatons of ice per year. and that works out to thousands of tons of ice being lost from this ice sheet per second. wait a minute, you just said thousands of tons of ice are lost per second. exactly. that works out to a new subdivision worth of homes of ice being lost every second. reporter: joe mcgregor is the mission s deputy project scientist. to collect this data and compare it to previous years, he and the other sciences rely on radar, lasers, and a camera that shoots thousands of photos in flight. what do we have got here? we have multiple instruments onboard, all with the goal of measuring what is going on with the ice underneath us, how it s changing, what its properties are. reporter: our destination for the day was peterman glacier, set in a canyon 15 1/2 miles wide, its walls taller than our plane, which made for a pretty bumpy flight. this glacier is one of the