Meanwhile: Greenland: roar of melting glacier sounds climate change alarm

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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hZQ5s5aH7lFpJ9kDlyUmzF95jkWw


Flying low over the vast, white expanse of Greenland's Ilulissat glacier, one of the biggest and most active in the world, the effects of global warming in the Arctic are painfully visible as the ice melts at an alarming rate.

The helicopter lands on a granite cliff overlooking the Ilulissat ice fjord, or Kangia in Greenlandic, offering a magnificent, panoramic view of elaborate ice formations as they float towards the sea at a rate of two meters (yards) an hour, spilling massive icebergs into the open water.

Off in the distance, huge boulders of ice break off of the imposing Ilulissat glacier, more commonly known by its Greenlandic name Sermeq Kujalleq, creating a thunderous roar as the glacier recedes in one of the planet's most striking examples of global warming.

"The ice in some places on the coast is now melting four times faster than before," says Abbas Khan, a Dane who studies the movements of Greenland's glaciers at the Danish Space Centre.

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Researchers have calculated that Greenland's glaciers will this year throw up to 220 cubic kilometers (52.7 cubic miles) of ice into the sea, contributing to a rise of the world's sea levels.
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Key West has been having flooding tides. said to be because of Moon and tide meeting. but I wonder.

there are coral rocks that used to show at low tide and now I never see them?

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1. Kick this one for the Earth!

It is so sad that we have known about this issue for decades, and still continue to just WATCH it happen.

I have wondered for a while of the ocean rise is being played down. I have a friend in Maui who sees the ocean coming farther up the beach every year, and the house in front of her may even need to be condemned this winter.

"nope, nothin to see here, move along people..."


I hope Obama can move fast enough, and that the rest of the planet can follow suit. The pot of water is boiling and we are the frogs who will soon be cooked.