Over Six Years, Arctic Ice (Ex. Greenland) Lost Enough Volume To Nearly Fill Lake Erie

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Over the six years Alex Gardner monitored Canada's Arctic glaciers and ice caps, he says they lost almost as much water as there is in Lake Erie.

The ice loss has increased sharply "in direct response to warmer summer temperatures" since 2004 — so sharply that Gardner and his colleagues say the Canadian Arctic Archipelago was the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise outside Greenland and Antarctica between 2007 and 2009.

"Even though these Canadian glaciers and ice caps are small compared to the huge ice sheets, they play a significant role in sea level rise," says Gardner.

He is a researcher at the University of Michigan and lead author of a report on the remarkable ice loss in Canada's Arctic to be published in the journal Nature on Thursday. The glaciers and ice caps are dwarfed by the colossal Greenland icefields next door. But the researchers say they are a major player in the climate-change equation because they hold so much water and are "highly sensitive" to rising temperatures.

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