#Climate #feedback loops could put human civilization on the road to #extinction
Between July 30 and August 5, surface temperatures rose 12° C above the period from 1981 to 2010, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Center.
#Greenland also registered daily ice melts of 12 to 24 billion tons over the five-day period—and daily runoff of 10 to 12 billion tons.