Greenland’s ice sheet melted 17 times faster than average during the heat wave in May. “Temperatures over Iceland as observed this May are record-breaking, more than 13 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991-2020 average May daily maximum temperatures,”

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1. Human-caused climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world, scientists said in an analysis released Wednesday.

   The Greenland ice sheet melted many times faster than normal during the heat wave, according to the analysis by World Weather Attribution.

   Parts of Iceland saw temperatures more than 10°C (18 °F) above average, and the country set a record for its warmest temperature in May when Egilsstadir Airport hit 26.6°C (79.8 F) on May 15.

2. That’s shocking. 80 degrees in the middle of the North Atlantic in spring. I wonder what the standard deviations are. Probably like 7 or something insane.

   Almost worse than all the destruction is the fact that we cant go through this together. There’s no collective therapy to help us go through this. The ones aware of what’s happening have to just silently sit in anguish and hope that we read something in some book somewhere that gives us peace. So it goes haha. Or try to talk about it and get pitied and dismissed. I find it exceptionally lonely

3. I remember a heat wave in Canada a few years ago. It was 39C just below the border with the north west territories. Its not good.

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