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A team from the Danish Meteorological Institute travels across the melted sea ice to retrieve equipment. "This is not a problem for future generations. This isn't a problem twenty years in the future. Climate breakdown is happening NOW." (Photo: Steffen M Olsen/Twitter)
'This Should Scare the Hell Out of You': Photo of Greenland Sled Dog Teams Walking on Melted Water Goes Viral
"This is beautiful the way fiery balls of lava are beautiful: deadly."
Jun 18, 2019
In yet the latest shocking image depicting just how fast the world's natural systems are changing due to the global climate emergency, a photograph showing a vast expanse of melted Arctic ice in Greenland--one in which a pair of sled dog teams appear to be walking on water--has gone viral.
The photo, taken by researcher Steffen Olsen from the Centre for Ocean and Ice at the Danish Meteorological Institute just last week, showed two teams of dogs pulling sleds designed for ice and snow through ankle-deep water atop a melted ice sheet in the country's Inglefield Bredning fjord.
\u201c@SteffenMalskaer got the difficult task of retrieving our oceanographic moorings and weather station on sea ice in North West Greenland this year. Rapid melt and sea ice with low permeability and few cracks leaves the melt water on top.\u201d— Rasmus Tonboe (@Rasmus Tonboe) 1560513947
"This is beautiful the way fiery balls of lava are beautiful: deadly," said freelance writer Robin Hamilton in response to the photograph.
Olsen was part of an expedition sent to the region to retrieve research equipment, but as the Washington Post reports the team encountered much more melting than anticipated: "Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the Greenland ice sheet appears to have witnessed its biggest melt event so early in the season on record this week (although a few other years showed similar mid-June melting)."
As journalist John Iadarola tweeted, the photo--despite having a majestic quality--represents a terrifying symbol of a world that is rapidly warming:
\u201cGreenland was FORTY degrees above normal.\n\nThis should scare the hell out of you.\n\nThis is not a problem for future generations. This isn't a problem twenty years in the future. Climate breakdown is happening NOW. \n\nhttps://t.co/fjQ93qCavR\u201d— John Iadarola (@John Iadarola) 1560806770
As Common Dreams reported last week, Arctic regions--from Alaska to Greenland--are experiencing record temperatures and much earlier summer melting compared to previous years.
\u201cThis spring, Greenland is melting 3x faster even than in the early phases of the global warming era. \nhttps://t.co/GlWf7cT8kJ\u201d— Bill McKibben (@Bill McKibben) 1560844160
Writing for Oil Change International on Tuesday, environmental writer Andy Rowell warned that "Arctic scientists are speaking out with increasing alarm at what they are seeing, and as they keep repeating 'what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.'"
Citing the dog sled photo and other evidence that continues to pile up, Rowell wrote, "The news coming out of the Arctic over the last few days is further evidence of our rapidly evolving climate emergency, which has ramifications for all of us."
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In yet the latest shocking image depicting just how fast the world's natural systems are changing due to the global climate emergency, a photograph showing a vast expanse of melted Arctic ice in Greenland--one in which a pair of sled dog teams appear to be walking on water--has gone viral.
The photo, taken by researcher Steffen Olsen from the Centre for Ocean and Ice at the Danish Meteorological Institute just last week, showed two teams of dogs pulling sleds designed for ice and snow through ankle-deep water atop a melted ice sheet in the country's Inglefield Bredning fjord.
\u201c@SteffenMalskaer got the difficult task of retrieving our oceanographic moorings and weather station on sea ice in North West Greenland this year. Rapid melt and sea ice with low permeability and few cracks leaves the melt water on top.\u201d— Rasmus Tonboe (@Rasmus Tonboe) 1560513947
"This is beautiful the way fiery balls of lava are beautiful: deadly," said freelance writer Robin Hamilton in response to the photograph.
Olsen was part of an expedition sent to the region to retrieve research equipment, but as the Washington Post reports the team encountered much more melting than anticipated: "Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the Greenland ice sheet appears to have witnessed its biggest melt event so early in the season on record this week (although a few other years showed similar mid-June melting)."
As journalist John Iadarola tweeted, the photo--despite having a majestic quality--represents a terrifying symbol of a world that is rapidly warming:
\u201cGreenland was FORTY degrees above normal.\n\nThis should scare the hell out of you.\n\nThis is not a problem for future generations. This isn't a problem twenty years in the future. Climate breakdown is happening NOW. \n\nhttps://t.co/fjQ93qCavR\u201d— John Iadarola (@John Iadarola) 1560806770
As Common Dreams reported last week, Arctic regions--from Alaska to Greenland--are experiencing record temperatures and much earlier summer melting compared to previous years.
\u201cThis spring, Greenland is melting 3x faster even than in the early phases of the global warming era. \nhttps://t.co/GlWf7cT8kJ\u201d— Bill McKibben (@Bill McKibben) 1560844160
Writing for Oil Change International on Tuesday, environmental writer Andy Rowell warned that "Arctic scientists are speaking out with increasing alarm at what they are seeing, and as they keep repeating 'what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.'"
Citing the dog sled photo and other evidence that continues to pile up, Rowell wrote, "The news coming out of the Arctic over the last few days is further evidence of our rapidly evolving climate emergency, which has ramifications for all of us."
In yet the latest shocking image depicting just how fast the world's natural systems are changing due to the global climate emergency, a photograph showing a vast expanse of melted Arctic ice in Greenland--one in which a pair of sled dog teams appear to be walking on water--has gone viral.
The photo, taken by researcher Steffen Olsen from the Centre for Ocean and Ice at the Danish Meteorological Institute just last week, showed two teams of dogs pulling sleds designed for ice and snow through ankle-deep water atop a melted ice sheet in the country's Inglefield Bredning fjord.
\u201c@SteffenMalskaer got the difficult task of retrieving our oceanographic moorings and weather station on sea ice in North West Greenland this year. Rapid melt and sea ice with low permeability and few cracks leaves the melt water on top.\u201d— Rasmus Tonboe (@Rasmus Tonboe) 1560513947
"This is beautiful the way fiery balls of lava are beautiful: deadly," said freelance writer Robin Hamilton in response to the photograph.
Olsen was part of an expedition sent to the region to retrieve research equipment, but as the Washington Post reports the team encountered much more melting than anticipated: "Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the Greenland ice sheet appears to have witnessed its biggest melt event so early in the season on record this week (although a few other years showed similar mid-June melting)."
As journalist John Iadarola tweeted, the photo--despite having a majestic quality--represents a terrifying symbol of a world that is rapidly warming:
\u201cGreenland was FORTY degrees above normal.\n\nThis should scare the hell out of you.\n\nThis is not a problem for future generations. This isn't a problem twenty years in the future. Climate breakdown is happening NOW. \n\nhttps://t.co/fjQ93qCavR\u201d— John Iadarola (@John Iadarola) 1560806770
As Common Dreams reported last week, Arctic regions--from Alaska to Greenland--are experiencing record temperatures and much earlier summer melting compared to previous years.
\u201cThis spring, Greenland is melting 3x faster even than in the early phases of the global warming era. \nhttps://t.co/GlWf7cT8kJ\u201d— Bill McKibben (@Bill McKibben) 1560844160
Writing for Oil Change International on Tuesday, environmental writer Andy Rowell warned that "Arctic scientists are speaking out with increasing alarm at what they are seeing, and as they keep repeating 'what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.'"
Citing the dog sled photo and other evidence that continues to pile up, Rowell wrote, "The news coming out of the Arctic over the last few days is further evidence of our rapidly evolving climate emergency, which has ramifications for all of us."
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