Another alarming sign of global warming: Rain falls at the summit of Greenald's Ice Dome for the first time | Israel Today

For the first time in documented history, rain fell at the highest point at the summit of Greenland.

This is a worrying sign that indicates the state of the glacier that its melting point is increasing, along with the frequency of extreme climatic events last summer.

The incident was documented on August 14, while a heat wave hit Greenland.

It was raining at the summit for several hours.

"This is not a healthy sign for the glacier," Indrani Das, a glaciologist from Columbia University, told Reuters.

"The water is a bad sign, they just cause further melting of the glacier."

A total of 7 billion tons of rain fell across Greenland over three days, from August 14 to August 16 - the largest amount since measurements began in 1950.

Scientists estimate that the melting of glaciers in Greenland has caused about 25% of global sea level rise in recent decades.

"This is a new thing, this is a new chapter in Greenland's 'book,'" Marco Tedesco, a researcher at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, told the New York Times. 

The record-breaking rain is the latest in a series of warning signs about how climate change is affecting the planet.

The high temperatures of July, caused the melting of the glaciers in Greenland to increase, so that enough ice melted in one day to cover the state of Florida in the USA with about 5 inches of water.

Greenland Glaciers // Photo: Reuters,

"This alarming rainfall at the summit of Greenland is not an isolated incident," said Twilla Moon, deputy chief scientist at the U.S. National Center for Snow and Ice. The greenhouse. "

Also released yesterday is a first-of-its-kind UNICEF (United Nations International Emergency Fund for Children) index that nearly every 2.2 billion children in the world are exposed to at least one more environmental risk, from catastrophic floods to polluted air.

Last week, UN scientists warned that global warming was nearing the danger of spiraling out of control, with severe heat waves, hurricanes and other extreme events likely to worsen.