{"id":24576,"date":"2018-12-06T22:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24576"},"modified":"2018-12-06T22:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:22:43","slug":"study-melting-of-greenlands-ice-is-off-the-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24576","title":{"rendered":"Study: Melting of Greenland&#8217;s ice is &#8216;off the charts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Greenland&#8217;s massive ice sheets contain enough water to <a href=\"http:\/\/greenlandmelt.pageflow.io\/greenland-melting#179820\" target=\"_blank\">raise global sea levels by 23 feet<\/a>, and a new study shows that they are melting at a rate &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; over centuries &#8212; and likely thousands of years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-018-0752-4#article-comments\" target=\"_blank\">study, published Thursday in the scientific journal Nature<\/a>, found that Greenland&#8217;s ice loss accelerated rapidly in the past two decades after remaining relatively stable since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Today, Greenland&#8217;s ice sheets are melting at a rate 50% higher than pre-industrial levels and 33% above 20th-century levels, the scientists found.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Greenland&#8217;s massive ice sheets contain enough water to raise global sea levels by 23 feet, and a new study shows that they are melting at a rate &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; over centuries &#8212; and likely thousands of years.The study, published Thursday in the scientific journal Nature, found that Greenland&#8217;s ice loss accelerated rapidly in the past two&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}