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Greenland ice sheet. our ski way is not that good when it is this warm. unable to fly out, scientists pass the time playing volleyball in shorts atop the ice sheet. preglobal warming he says temperatures near 32 degrees fahrenheit at this altitude were unheard of. the national snow and ice data center tells cnn from july 15th through 17th alone, a melt surge in northern greenland caused ice sheet runoff of about 6 billion tons of water per day. that's about the volume of 2.4 million olympic-sized pools. put another way, enough water to flood the entire state of west virginia, with one foot of ...

The middle of the greenland ice sheet. our planned planes are postponed because our ski way is not that good when it is this warm." unable to fly out, the scientists passed the time playing volleyball in shorts atop the ice sheet. >> yeah. >> reporter: pre-global warming, he says temperatures nearly 32 degrees fahrenheit at this altitude were unheard of. the national snow and ice data center tells cnn from july 15th through 17th alone a melt surge in northern greenland caused ice sheet runoff of about six billion tons of water per day. that's about the 2.4 million olympic-size pools. put anoth...

The water off the coast of northwest Greenland is a glass-like calm, but the puddles accumulating on the region's icebergs are a sign that a transformation is underway higher on

Center telling cnn they're expecting another major melt event later on this week and they actually expect that one to extend to much more of the ice sheet and, erin, we've seen it in europe. many parts of the u.s. there and even here in greenland, these heat waves. we expect to see a lot more of those as the global climate continues to rise. erin? >> all right. rene, thank you very much. then of course you see that giant deluge and how does it feet throughout the whole world. thank you so much. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. with the house january 6th committee geari...

Last August, rain fell for the first time at the peak of Greenland’s ice sheet, but this had little impact on ice melt compared with other effects