氣候變暖太可怕,格陵蘭島地區一天融化20億噸冰

Over 40% of Greenland experienced melting Thursday, with total ice loss estimated to be more than 2 gigatons (equal to 2 billion tons) on just that day alone.

週四超過40％的格陵蘭島地區出現了融化現象，據估計，僅週四一天，格陵蘭島地區融化的總冰量超過了2千兆噸（相當於20億噸）。

While Greenland is a big island filled with lots of ice, it is highly unusual for that much ice to be lost in the middle of June. The average "melt season" for Greenland runs from June to August, with the bulk of the melting occurring in July.

雖然格陵蘭島是一個大島，冰量巨大，但在6月中旬失去大量的冰的現象是非常不尋常的。格陵蘭島的“融化季節”一般是從6月持續到8月，大部分融冰發生在7月。

To visualize how much ice that is, imagine filling the National Mall in Washington with enough ice to reach a point in the sky eight times higher than the Washington Monument (to borrow an analogy Meredith Nettles from Columbia University gave to The Washington Post).

想要使這些冰量可視化，你可以想象一下在華盛頓的國家廣場堆滿冰塊直指天空的景象，它比華盛頓紀念碑高8倍（借用哥倫比亞大學的Meredith Nettles給華盛頓郵報的比喻）。

The sudden spike in melting "is unusual, but not unprecedented," according to Thomas Mote, a research scientist at the University of Georgia who studies Greenland's climate.

喬治亞大學研究科學家托馬斯莫特，他專門研究格陵蘭島氣候，托馬斯說，融化的突然飆升“雖然不尋常，但並非前所未有”。

"It is comparable to some spikes we saw in June of 2012," Mote told CNN, referring to the record-setting melt year of 2012 that saw almost the entire ice sheet experience melting for the first time in recorded history.“

這與我們在2012年6月看到的一些峯值相當，”Mote在美國有線電視新聞網時說，他指的是2012年創紀錄的融冰年，那是有史以來幾乎 整個冰蓋第一次融化。

This much melting this early in the summer could be a bad sign, indicating 2019 could once again set records for the amount of Greenland ice loss.

可能今年夏季早期的大幅融冰是一個不好的跡象，這表明2019年格陵蘭島可能再次創下融冰量的記錄。