The ice cover in Greenland between May 15 and 21 has witnessed 17 times faster than the historical average, as a result of a record free wave that struck Iceland, according to the “World Wittar Atribiouch” network, today, Wednesday.
The network indicated that the 2025 data was compared to the average melting between 1980 and 2010.
Frederke Otto, one of the two network reporters and one of the most prominent lectures in climate science in “Imperial Colding London”, during a press presentation, stressed that “the contribution of the melting of the ice cover in Greenland to the high level of the seas would be greater than it would not have been for this heat wave.”
In Iceland, the heat exceeded 26 ° C on May 15, which is an unprecedented record on the island on the edge of the Arctic.
“The temperatures recorded in Iceland during May, the records were destroyed, and the average daily daily temperatures witnessed in the month of May for the period between 1991 and 2020”, by more than 13 degrees Celsius.
During May, 94 percent of the stations recorded new record temperatures, according to the Local Meteorological Institute.
“Without climate change, that would have been impossible,” said Otto.
And “World Weser Atripation” confirmed that the most free days of the year in eastern Greenland have witnessed a rise in temperature by about 3.9 degrees Celsius from the pre -industrial climate.
The researcher stressed that “a free wave of 20 degrees Celsius does not seem an extreme phenomenon for most people in the world, but it is a major problem for this region (…) and greatly affects the whole world.”
The Arctic is witnessing four times faster warming than the rest of the world, according to the scientific magazine “Nature”.
For the indigenous population in Greenland, high temperatures and melting ice means a change in traditional hunting conditions. They also have implications for infrastructure.
“The infrastructure in Greenland and Iceland was designed to tolerate the cold, which means that during hot weather, the melting of the ice can cause floods and damage by roads and infrastructure.”
