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97% of Greenland ice sheet melting

The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an “unprecedented” rate, according to NASA satellite data that shows 97 per cent of the vast mass is undergoing some form of melting. “This was so extraordinary that at first I questioned the result: was this real or was it due to a data error?” a NASA researcher, Son Nghiem, said…. Source

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