sounds very troubling let's get some perspective now on this and joining us from copenhagen is martin stendhal he's a climate scientist at the danish meteorological institute that's a group that's been doing a lot of important research in greenland 1st of all thank you for joining us i mean we saw those dramatic images we heard those dire statistics can you just help us understand what exactly is going on in greenland right path. you know i think you would even so what's going on is if you have a very strong wind it happens every year that in july and august i says noting on the ice sheet but this year actually this milton has been much larger and comparable. with the most militant so far which wasn't with all till. the end in july alone approximately 200 cubic kilometers of this was it before. the dawn and this contributes to a sea level rise and. it's quite dramatic high temperatures not only over europe but also really in the summit which assists it's more than. 3200 meters. to push $2.00 degrees plus that is. essentially 0. and you mentioned the rising of sea levels and that was i think a

our ball dire sounding things there we thank you very much for that analysis martin stendhal from the danish the your logical institute thanks very much. for snow country is immune to the effects of climate change and that includes germany in fact global warming is combining with other factors to threaten one of the nation's most iconic features its forests about a 3rd of germany is covered in trees but those trees are now rapidly. the forest rangers of germany's donors back mountain face a worrying problem the oak trees on the eastern slope dying they prevailed for hundreds of years last summer everything here was green now months of dry weather have taken their toll these are is the other and this forest is old and rapidly done and always would tell even from this is a warning we have to heat. we have to really pay attention to developments in the future. we don't have a tried and tested response to the scenario in forestry at the moment. it's clear that if this trend continues these force will probably be lost and all that will be left will be grassland savannah and bush. the weake