Greenland Melting
Remember when scientists were saying that global warming would melt the ice caps and glaciers enough so that sea levels would rise as much as three or four inches? The sea level rise amount estimate has been increased, mainly due to studies done by NASA’s JPL crew that show the miles long tongues that have melted in the past decade and are no longer there, were at least partially responsible for stemming the demise of a glacier.
The speedup of glacial melting has been detected simultaneously in many glaciers, and they insist this is not a fluke nor a normal cycle at the rate they are going. The rivers of ice are melting so fast that Greenlanders are getting concerned that they are going to disappear all together in a huge rush to the ocean. Apparently, when the tongues of ice that stick into the ocean are gone, (they all melted in the last decade unexpectedly), that also takes away the slow conduit the water once used to reach the ocean. The ice starts melting where it normally doesn’t, creating crevasses in the thick sheets that allow rainwater to flow into it, greasing the skids so to speak for a faster glacial flow. It’s now estimated that with the loss of the Greenland glaciers sea levels would rise 20 feet. No need to go into what that would do to every city in the world on a coastline.
February 17th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
The Stop Global Warming Virtual March is a non-partisan effort to bring all Americans together in one place to prove that global warming is here now… and, it is time for us to do something about it.
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On Earth Day 2006, the March will arrive in Washington, DC and use the strength of our numbers to urge 1) Our government to join the rest of the world in addressing global warming, and 2) American business to start a new industrial revolution on clean energy products that reduce our dependence on oil and other global warming pollution.
February 17th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Thanks Alison, I registered for the march in March, looks like I’m in pretty good company.