Greenland's Glaciers Are Melting Faster - seas to rise faster too

[donsu]

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060216143509990004&ncid=NWS00010000000001


Greenland's glaciers are dumping twice as much ice into the Atlantic Ocean now as five years ago because glaciers are moving and melting more quickly, researchers said on Thursday.

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This change, combined with increased melting, suggests that existing estimates of future sea level rise are too low," Julian Dowdeswell of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Britain's Cambridge University wrote in a commentary.

"At 1.7 million square km <656,000 square miles>, up to 3 km thick and a little smaller than Mexico, the Greenland Ice Sheet would raise global sea level by about 7 meters <22 feet> if it melted completely."
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what's to stop it from melting? the bushmilhousegang? they are too busy sucking up money and playing rulers of the world.

that's not the only glacier melting. all the world's glaciers are melting.

where are the cops!!!!!!!

[benburch]

1. Total sea level rise will be around 40 meters in that case.

Because undoubtedly Antarctica will melt off in such a situation. And also remaining inland (mountain) glaciers elsewhere.

[newyawker99]

2. kick

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