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Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone

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On 11/17/2015 8:12 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone
>>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-greenland-major-glacier-undone.html
>>
>>
>>> It's big. It's cold. And it's melting into the world's oceans.
>>>
>>> It's Zachariae Isstrom, the latest in a string of Greenland glaciers
>>> to undergo rapid change in our warming world. A new NASA-funded study
>>> published today in the journal Science finds that Zachariae Isstrom
>>> broke loose from a glaciologically stable position in 2012 and
>>> entered a phase of accelerated retreat. The consequences will be felt
>>> for decades to come.

>>> The reason? Zachariae Isstrom is big. It drains ice from an area of
>>> 35,440 square miles (91,780 square kilometers). That's about 5
>>> percent of the Greenland Ice Sheet. All by itself, it holds enough
>>> water to raise global sea level by more than 18 inches (46
>>> centimeters) if it were to melt completely. And now it's on a crash
>>> diet, losing 5 billion tons of mass every year. All that ice is
>>> crumbling into the North Atlantic Ocean.
>>>
>>> "North Greenland glaciers are changing rapidly," said lead author
>>> Jeremie Mouginot, an assistant researcher in the Department of Earth
>>> System Science at the University of California, Irvine. "The shape
>>> and dynamics of Zachariae Isstrom have changed dramatically over the
>>> last few years. The glacier is now breaking up and calving high
>>> volumes of icebergs into the ocean, which will result in rising sea
>>> levels for decades to come."
>
> Yawn.
>
>

to fix it, millions of pieces of Styrofoam are being attached to the 
glacier surface, to keep in the cold, and reflect the heat of the 
burning sun.  It is estimated this effort will take Bob and Jon about 95 
years if someone delivers the styrofoam, and nails to them.

In other parts of the world, giant government funded Ice machines are 
making ice cubes using sea water and storing them in huge vaults 
underground, refrigerated of course.

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In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 19:32 -0600
  Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-18 02:12 +0000
    Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-18 09:45 -0600
      Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-18 11:00 -0600
        Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 13:48 -0800
  Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 16:39 -0800

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