Greenland just hit a big new record, and it isn't a good one.
Temperatures soared to 75 degrees Fahrenheit in mid-June, smashing previous temperature logs for as long as people have been keeping them.
Greenland's continent-wide ice sheet is also at its tiniest in recorded history — and the annual summer melt season has only just begun.
Some argue that Greenland's balmy new climate will spur its economy. But these photos show why that trade-off isn't worth the calamitous costs to the planet.
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April 2016 brought alarming news to climatologists: Greenland's annual melt season started two months early.
Source: Tech Insider
Weather stations recorded local temperatures as high as 38 degrees Fahrenheit, which is well above the melting point of ice.
"That would be a warm day in July, never mind April," climatologist Robert Fausto said in a statement to the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
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