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'21 starting at the top of the world where greenland's highest peak was so freshishly warm it rained for several hours. they believe this is the birthplace of the iceberg that sank the titanic but now scientists are really worried this place could help sink miami and boston and bangkok and shanghai because just this part of greenland has enough ice if it all melts, we'll raise sea levels by two feet. a new study predicts the arctic will see more rain than snow as soon as 2060 and in the meantime, the ice sheet so vital to a planet in balance is melting at a staggering rate. number nine, that i...

>> reporter: the signs were everywhere in '21, starting at the top of the world where greenland's highest peak was so warm that it rained for several hours. >> oh, my goodness. will you look at this? behold the biggest glacier on the biggest island in the world. you can't really see the glacier from here anymore. it used to end right about here, 8,000 years ago. but the face has retreated dozens of miles up this cliff. arctic will see more rain than snow as soon as 2060 and the ice sheet so vital to a planet

Arctic will see more rain than snow as soon as 2060, and the ice sheet is melting at a staggering rate. at number nine, the icy surprise in texas, which illustrated how the climate crisis can run hot and cold, with windchills below zero on the rio grande, nearly 10 million lost power, it became america's costliest winter storm event ever. eight, flash floods on three continents. in germany a month of rain fell in one day. in china, commuters clung to the ceiling of a subway as a 1,000-year flood hit. and in tennessee the flood came like a tidal wave. seven, the u.s. rejoins the

The variety of species found below an Antarctic ice shelf shows that life can survive in hostile, food-poor environments for thousands of years

While the country’s policy continues to lag behind, climate change is fast becoming a force that it has to reckon with.