Greenland glaciers disappearing more quickly

GLOBAL WARMING........????


Situation:

Ph.Ds from all walks of science and the majority of them who dedicated
their lives to monitoring and researching the planet's climate and
weather have been sounding the alarm for years. There is a major
problem developing with our climate that needs to be addressed: NOW.


Decades later...



Republicans: Awwww those eggheads don't know what they are talking
about....it's a hoax!!! Just ask Rush and Sean...they'll tell you!!

Democrats: Ohhhhhhhhh ***!!!! What are gonna do now!?!?!?!?!

Libs: Somebody do something............P L E A S E !!!!!!!!

Moderates: Goddamn it!! Didn't I tell you this *** was going to
happen!!!! Christ!!! Doesn't anyone watch PBS anymore??? Any ideas
on how to fix this anyone.......?


AND WHAT EXACTLY IS > YOUR < EXCUSE......?






Below, another article on climate change...that isn't happening!
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Greenland Glaciers Disappearing More Quickly

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent




ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Greenland's glaciers are dumping more than twice
as much ice into the Atlantic Ocean now as 10 years ago because
glaciers are sliding off the land more quickly, researchers said on
Thursday.


This could mean oceans will rise even faster than forecast, and rising
surface air temperatures appear to be to blame, the researchers report
in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

Glaciers around the world are disappearing quickly, several researchers
told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, which publishes Science.

"Greenland is probably going to contribute more and faster to sea level
rise than predicted," Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
at the California Institute of Technology told a news conference.

Between 1996 and 2006, the amount of water lost from Greenland's ice
*** has more than doubled from 90 cubic kilometers to 220 cubic
kilometers a year, Rignot said.

"One cubic kilometer is the amount of water Los Angeles uses in a year.
Two-hundred cubic kilometers of water is a lot of fresh water," Rignot
said.

Other experts agreed this could mean scientists have underestimated how
much the sea level will rise in the future as the planet warms.

"At 1.7 million square km (656,000 square miles), up to 3 km (nearly
two miles) thick and a little smaller than Mexico, the Greenland Ice
*** would raise global sea level by about 7 meters (22 feet) if it
melted completely," Julian Dowdeswell of the Scott Polar Research
Institute at Britain's Cambridge University wrote in a commentary in
Science.

The study did not explore what is causing the rising air temperatures
in Greenland, but most scientists agree that human activity, notably
the burning of fossil fuels, is playing an important role in global
warming.

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Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam of the University of Kansas used
satellite data to track the movement of Greenland's glaciers, which
slide slowly down to the sea and deposit ice.

They calculated that Greenland contributes about 0.02 inch (half a
millimeter) to the annual 0.1 inch (3 mm) rise in global sea levels.

Since 1996, southeast Greenland's outlet glaciers have been flowing
more quickly and since 2000 glaciers farther north have also sped up.

One glacier that once was stable is now disappearing at the rate of 14
km (8.7 miles) a year, Rignot said.

"It takes a long time to build and melt an ice ***, but glaciers can
react quickly to temperature changes," Rignot said.

Rising air temperatures are clearly a factor, the researchers told the
meeting. "This is clearly a result of warming around the periphery of
Greenland," Rignot said.

Over the last 20 years, the air temperature in southeast Greenland has
risen by 5.4 degrees F (3 degrees C).

Warmer air lubricates the bottoms of glaciers, helping them slide
faster.

"Climate warming can work in different ways, but generally speaking, if
you warm up the ice ***, the glacier will flow faster," said Rignot.

And it may melt even more quickly in years to come, he added.

"The southern half of Greenland is reacting to what we think is climate
warming. The northern half is waiting, but I don't think it's going to
take long," Rignot said.

Rignot and other researchers noted that in some parts of Greenland,
increased snowfall is making parts of some glaciers thicker.

"A few years back, we thought ice sheets might grow because of
increased precipitation," Rignot said. "Now we see that rates of
glacier flow are changing. We think the process that is winning overall
is the rate of glacier flow."

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