Greenland lost 600 billion tons of ice last summer due to an exceptionally warm season, according to a study released Wednesday. Last summer’s ice loss in Greenland is enough to raise global sea levels by nearly a 10th of an inch — or 2.2 millimeters — in two months, based on a study by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of California, Irvine. “We knew this past summer had been particularly warm in Greenland, melting every corner of the ice sheet,” lead author Isabella Velicogna, senior project scientist at NASA’s JPL and a professor at University of California, Irvine, said in a release . “But the numbers really are enormous.” The ice losses last summer are more than double Greenland’s 2002-2019 yearly average, according to the study. The study also found that Antarctica continues to lose mass, as well. “In Antarctica, the mass loss […]