Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Potential
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What would happen if all of Greenland's ice melted?
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As it stands now, Greenland is the largest island on Earth , covering an area of 2.1 million square kilometers .
Of that, 81% of the land is covered in ice sheets, amounting to 6.7% of all the fresh water on Earth .
A melting of only Greenland would cause sea levels to rise by an estimated 7.2 meters .
But because Greenland has less ice, that also means it would take a lot less warming to fully melt.
Greenland would remain the largest island in the world as the next biggest, New Guinea is only 780,000 square kilometers .
Greenland would be 1.6 million square kilometers , meaning 74% of the land would remain above sea level.
Greenland 's greatest resource in the event of its own melting being its potential salvation for climate refugees.
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