Re: OT: Hey Ewoud

On Sep 27, 9:06 pm, "Tom Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:


Hmm, so how's that compare with the Greenland glaciers have been melted
mostly off in the time of Eric the Red? Besides that stupid jackass Henry
not knowing that sea level has risen about an inch in the last century I
don't suppose he's going to ever get a clue.



http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/899682.html

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But something has changed in recent years. The balance has been
broken. The glaciers' melting pace became higher than the rate of
snowfall in the island's center. In each of the past few years,
Greenland lost an amount of water equal to that contained in the
entire Alpine range. And the snow falling in its center cannot make up
for that. In addition, Steffen and his colleagues have taken a series
of unusual measurements, which point to climate change. Air
temperature in the Greenland winter has gone up four degrees, the
sharpest increase anywhere in the world; the rate of glacier movement
to the sea has doubled; and the ice *** itself has begun oozing ever-
faster westward toward the sea, sliding on melted water that acts as
lubricant.

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