Documentary filmmaker Caspar Haarloev took videos of Greenland’s ice melting at historic records on Friday while producing a climate change documentary called “Into the Ice”.
With historically high temperatures of 22 degrees Celsius (71.6 F), scientists from Denmark’s Meteorological Institute said the Greenland ice sheet ended July with a net mass loss of 197 Gigatones from the beginning of the month. The highest daily total of the melt season was registered on July 31 with 11 Gigatones of mass loss, which equals over 10 billions tons of ice melted in 24 hours.
“It has been incredibly fascinating to explore the big and mysterious cryosphere. All this ice is just lying there like a big sleeping monster. No one cared about it before it started to melt. Now everybody cares. And for a very good reason”, Caspar told Reuters as he continues producing his documentary.