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Greenland ‘Heinrich’ ice surge much more likley than thought

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Heinrich ice surges  event occur about every 15 Kyr and one is about due and in the past have raised sea level by  meters in as many days (and also cause glacial inception)  . Until recently the probability of the massive Greenland ice sheet causing one in the next 1 Kyr have been thought to be low .
 However recent detailed  studies of the rapidly melting Greenland ice surface have shown that the  water flows that run into moulins are not freezing in winter but sitting in vast lakes warming  and melting  the ice  above .
There probably won`t be much warning of when up to 100.000 cu Km of ice starts to slide into the N>Atlantic so it will be quite  a RLF moment ! 

DESMODUS  (we know that the last interglacial ended with a Heinrich event as in places there are massive ice rafted boulders dumped on  +2m raised beaches  and there are peat layers showing that parts of Greenland currently  covered by ice  had deglaciated )

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Greenland ‘Heinrich’ ice  surge much more likley than thought  DESMODUS <desmodus@uku.co.uk> - 2022-10-23 03:36 -0700
  Re: Greenland ‘Heinrich’ ice surge much more likley than thought DESMODUS <desmodus@uku.co.uk> - 2022-10-26 03:43 -0700
    Re: Greenland Heinrich ice surge much more likely than thought? Horus@solari.us - 2022-10-31 18:46 +0000

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