This is some scary stuff. According to NASA analysis of recent satellite readings, in just four days, nearly all of Greenland’s surface ice melted.

Because if we don't act soon, Greenland will just be the beginning.

This is some scary stuff. According to NASA analysis of recent satellite readings, in just four days, nearly all of Greenland’s surface ice melted.

In a normal summer, 40 percent of Greenland’s landmass is covered by ice as the ice sheet shrinks by about half during the hottest months of the year. And on July 8th, things were still looking normal. 

But just four days later, 97 percent of Greenland’s icy blanket was thawing out, a record amount of melting in a record amount of time. 

“The discovery was so severe, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California analyzing the satellite data thought it was a mistake. The space agency has monitored Greenland’s annual ice melt for 30 years, and has never recorded anything like this before.” 

As the U.S. suffered through a triple-digit heat wave, on July 11 and 12, Greenland was experiencing it’s own heat wave, with temperatures reaching a degree or two above freezing — which in the arctic, is utterly catastrophic. 

Not since 1889 has Greenland experienced such a melting event. Whether Global Warming caused the rapid melt or this is a natural event is still up for debate. Lets hope for the sake of Greenland and our entire planet, that this was an isolated event. 

Despite the mounting evidence of global warming, including Greenland melting in just four days — many of our elected leaders still refuse to admit that global warming is real, let alone do anything about it. Click here to sign our petiton demanding elected officials take this issue seriously.

Because if we don't act soon, Greenland will just be the beginning.