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Since I told Shaun that the Greenland ice was melting at a gew feet a year,
new information has been reported. See below; Cheers, Alastair. BTW. On the BBC web page there is a link to a short video which can be played through RealPlayer. It ends with a cheerful Greenlander looking forward to an ice free future, but he does remark it might not be so good for us :-( ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dano" Newsgroups: sci.environment Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 6:48 PM Subject: Greenland ice-melt 'speeding up' BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3922579.stm "Now, amid some of the most hostile conditions anywhere on the planet, Carl Boggild and his team have recorded falls as dramatic as 10 metres a year - in places the ice is dropping at a rate of one metre a month...Dr Boggild and his colleagues, studying the physics of how the air and ice relate, conclude that as much as 55% of the melting is attributable to warming in the air. He is cautious to avoid blaming climate change too readily: "Maybe if we look back after 50 years and see how temperatures have risen, then we can call it climate change... Dr Boggild is all too aware of how easily he could be accused of jumping onto a climate change bandwagon. But he is adamant that the results he has gathered so far are reliable. Potatoes are growing for the first time in centuries "We can say for certain that the rate of melting has increased and we can say for certain that the height of the ice-sheet is falling, even allowing for increased ice-flow. " Scholarly article: http://www.geus.dk/departments/quate...ubl_2004_1.pdf Towards an assessment of the balance state of the Greenland Ice Sheet D |
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