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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that Greenland is losing ice, as a result of global warming, at approximately 250 Pg/year. Part a: Find the energy needed to melt 250 Pg of ice. Express your answer with the appropriate units. Part B: Greenland's ice melt results most immediately from an imbalance between incoming and outgoing energy—an imbalance created largely by the absorption of infrared radiation by human-produced greenhouse gases. Use your answer to part A to express Greenland's energy imbalance in watts per square meter of the Greenland ice sheet's surface area. That your result is larger than the global imbalance of somewhat less than 1 W/m2 shows that the impact of global warming is greater in the Arctic. The area of Greenland covered with ice is 1.71 × 10^12 m2. Express your answer with the appropriate units.

          The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that Greenland is losing ice, as a result of global warming, at approximately 250 Pg/year. 

Part a: Find the energy needed to melt 250 Pg of ice. Express your answer with the appropriate units.

Part B: Greenland's ice melt results most immediately from an imbalance between incoming and outgoing energy—an imbalance created largely by the absorption of infrared radiation by human-produced greenhouse gases. Use your answer to part A to express Greenland's energy imbalance in watts per square meter of the Greenland ice sheet's surface area. That your result is larger than the global imbalance of somewhat less than 1 W/m2 shows that the impact of global warming is greater in the Arctic. The area of Greenland covered with ice is 1.71 × 10^12 m2. Express your answer with the appropriate units.

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