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Re: Once Stable Greenland Glacier Facing Rapid Melt

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
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Subject Re: Once Stable Greenland Glacier Facing Rapid Melt
Date 2015-11-14 00:49 +0000
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Once Stable Greenland Glacier Facing Rapid Melt
>> http://www.climatecentral.org/news/northeast-greenland-glacier-melt-19673
> 
> 
>> For years, much of the concern about the melting of Greenland?s
>> massive ice sheet has been focused on the massive retreat of glaciers
>> in the island?s southeast and west, fueled by climate change. Those
>> on its colder, drier northeast corner were thought to be stable.
> 
>> But a new study detailed in the journal Science shows that two of
>> those glaciers are showing worrying changes, and that one has been
>> retreating at an accelerating rate in recent years as it faces a dual
>> attack by warm air from above and warm water from below.
>>
>> These shifts mean this area of the frozen expanse could increase
>> Greenland?s contributions to overall sea level rise in the coming
>> years, the study researchers conclude.
>>
>> The results show the changes that are piling up in the
>> fastest-warming region of the planet, the Arctic, as the world heats
>> up from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
 
Nothing is stable in Greenland in any time scale larger than weeks. 
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Once Stable Greenland Glacier Facing Rapid Melt Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 18:28 -0600
  Re: Once Stable Greenland Glacier Facing Rapid Melt jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 00:49 +0000
  Re: Once Stable Greenland Glacier Facing Rapid Melt gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-14 14:28 -0600
    Re: Once Stable Greenland Glacier Facing Rapid Melt Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 22:04 +0100
      Re: Once Stable Greenland Glacier Facing Rapid Melt gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-14 21:39 -0600
        Re: Once Stable Greenland Glacier Facing Rapid Melt Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 09:54 +0100
        Re: Once Stable Greenland Glacier Facing Rapid Melt Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 10:29 +0100
        Re: Once Stable Greenland Glacier Facing Rapid Melt Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 10:30 +0100

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