Glaciers on Canada’s Ellesmere Island. April, 2014. | Photo: Twitter/ @arctic_today
(teleSUR)* — The last intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic collapsed and lost a large part of his area due to extremely high temperatures, according to the Canadian Ice Service (CIS), as reported on Friday [7 August 2020].
“Above normal air temperatures, offshore winds and open water in front of the ice shelf are all part of the recipe for ice shelf break up,” the CIS tweeted.
According to Luke Copland, a Glaciologist at the University of Ottawa, the Canadian Arctic’s temperature for the current summer is 5C higher than las three decades average.