在36小时内，格陵兰岛记录到大量融化的冰，相当于40万个奥林匹克游泳池

在36小时内，格陵兰岛记录到大量融化的冰，相当于40万个奥林匹克游泳池

Climate change is affecting us real bad and is accelerating in such a manner that even climate scientists are baffled. An ongoing heatwave has seen parts of glaciers across the world melt at a rapid rate and now a new date shows the Greenland ice sheet has melted the highest on a single day. The heatwave has sweltered the whole of northern Europe and its ramifications are visible in the critically vulnerable Greenland ice sheet.

气候变化正在对我们造成严重的影响，而且正在以一种连气候科学家都感到困惑的方式加速变化。持续不断的热浪使世界各地的部分冰川迅速融化，现在一个新的数据显示，格陵兰冰盖在一天内融化的程度最高。热浪席卷了整个北欧，其后果在极其脆弱的格陵兰冰原上可见一斑。

Greenland, the world's largest island, is a semi-autonomous Danish territory between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans that has 82% of its surface covered in ice. The heat wave continues to intensify, Greenland recorded the biggest single-day ice melt ever recorded.

格陵兰岛是世界上最大的岛屿，是丹麦的半自治领土，位于大西洋和北冰洋之间，82%的表面被冰覆盖。热浪继续加剧，格陵兰岛出现了有记录以来最大的单日融冰。

Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute said, "More than 10 billion tons (11 billion U.S. tons) of ice was lost to the oceans by surface melt on one day alone."

丹麦气象研究所的气候科学家露丝·莫特拉姆说:“仅仅一天，就有100亿吨(110亿美元)的冰因表面融化而流失到海洋中。”

On Thursday alone, more than 12 billion tons of water melted away permanently from the ice sheet and found its way down to the ocean, irreversibly rising sea levels globally.

仅在周四，就有120多亿吨水从冰原上永久融化，流入海洋，导致全球海平面不可逆转地上升。

The scope of Wednesday's ice melt is a number difficult to grasp. To understand just how much ice is being lost, a mere 1 billion tons _ or 1 gigaton _ of ice loss is equivalent to about 400,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, the Danish Meteorological Institute said. And 100 billion tons (110 billion U.S. tons) corresponds to a 0.28 mm (0.01 inch) rise in global sea levels.

周三冰融化的范围是一个难以理解的数字。丹麦气象研究所表示，要了解到底有多少冰正在流失，仅仅10亿吨或10亿吨冰的流失就相当于大约40万个奥运会大小的游泳池。1000亿吨(1100亿美国吨)相当于全球海平面上升0.28毫米(0.01英寸)。

Mottram said since June 1 _ roughly the start of the ice-loss season _ the Greenland ice sheet has lost 240 gigatons (240 billion metric tons) this year. That compares with 290 gigatons lost overall in the 2012 melt season, which usually goes through the end of August.

莫特兰表示，自6月1日大约是冰消失季节的开始以来，格陵兰冰盖今年已经损失了2400亿吨(2400亿公吨)。相比之下，在通常持续到8月底的2012年冰川融化季节，融化总量为2900亿吨。

A June 2019 study by scientists in the U.S. and Denmark said melting ice in Greenland alone will add between 5 and 33 centimeters (2 to 13 inches) to rising global sea levels by the year 2100. If all the ice in Greenland melted _ which would take centuries _ the world's oceans would rise by 7.2 meters (23 feet, 7 inches), the study found.

美国和丹麦科学家2019年6月的一项研究称，到2100年，仅格陵兰岛融化的冰就会使全球海平面上升5到33厘米(2到13英寸)。研究发现，如果格陵兰岛的冰全部融化——这需要几个世纪的时间——世界海洋将上升7.2米。

The current melting has been brought on by the arrival of the same warm air from North Africa and Spain that melted European cities and towns last week, setting national temperature records in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Britain.

上周，来自北非和西班牙的暖空气融化了欧洲的城市和城镇，并在比利时、德国、卢森堡、荷兰和英国创造了国家温度记录。

Heatwaves have always occurred, but Mike Sparrow, a spokesman for the U.N. World Meteorological Organization, noted that as global temperatures have risen, extreme heatwaves are now occurring at least 10 times more frequently than a century ago. This year, the world saw its hottest month of June ever.

热浪总是会发生，但联合国世界气象组织发言人迈克·斯派洛指出，随着全球气温上升，极端热浪发生的频率比一个世纪前至少增加了10倍。今年，世界经历了有史以来最热的6月。

"These kinds of heatwaves are weather events and can occur naturally but studies have shown that both the frequency and intensity of these heatwaves have increased due to global warming,'' Sparrow said in a telephone interview from Geneva.

斯派洛在日内瓦接受电话采访时说:“这种热浪是天气事件，可以自然发生，但研究表明，由于全球变暖，这种热浪的频率和强度都有所增加。”

He noted that sea ice spread in the Arctic and Antarctic are both currently at record lows.

他指出，北极和南极的海冰目前都处于历史最低水平。