I suspect you will fins that "climate change" was added by the journalist. It would be less contentious and more accurate to say "ocean change".
Check out the abstract: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ngeo765.html No mention of climate change. Or check out here: http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=69134&ct=162 "Straneo adds that the study highlights how little is known about ocean-glacier interactions, which is a connection not currently included in climate models." If you are a CO2 warmist you don't really want to hear that Greenland glaciers are experiencing a little difficulty with local sea currents. The CO2 rakshasa might be able to claim quite reasonably "wasn't me Guv, someone else did it!" --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > GREENLAND'S GLACIERS DISAPPEARING FROM THE BOTTOM UP > By Shanta Barley > New Scientist > February 14, 2010 > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18520-greenlands-glaciers-disappearing > -from-the-bottom-up.html > > Water warmed by climate change is taking giant bites out of the underbellies > of Greenland's glaciers. As much as 75 per cent of the ice lost by the > glaciers is melted by ocean warmth. > > "There's an entrenched view in the public community that glaciers only lose > ice when icebergs calve off," says Eric Rignot at the University of > California, Irvine. "Our study shows that what's happening beneath the water > is just as important." > > In the summer of 2008, Rignot's team measured salinity, temperature and > current speeds near four calving fronts in three fjords in western > Greenland. They calculated melting rates from this data. > > Unplugged > > The underwater faces of the different glaciers retreated by between 0.7 and > 3.9 metres each day, representing 20 times more ice than melts off the top > of the glacier. This creates ice overhangs that crumble into the sea, says > Paul Holland at the British Antarctic Society. > > Warming water may also be unlocking ice from the seabed, removing the > buttresses that stop inland ice sliding out to sea, says Rignot. This is one > way that warming oceans could be helping to shift Greenland's ice off the > land and out to sea. > > Glaciologist Eric Steig at the University of Washington in Seattle says the > importance of bottom-melting by warm ocean water was well-known in Antarctic > glaciers. "But this is the first study to strongly indicate that it is > occurring in Greenland too," he says. > > ............ > > NHNE's Climate Change Resource Page: > http://www.nhne.org/tabid/490/Default.aspx > > NHNE's 1000 Most Recent Climate Change Articles: > http://www.nhne.org/tabid/1050/Default.aspx > > ------------ > > NHNE Wavemaker News List: > > Send Some Green Love To NHNE: > http://www.nhne.org/DONATE/tabid/398/Default.aspx > > To subscribe, send a message to: > nhnenews-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:nhnenews-subscribe%40yahoogroups.com> > > To unsubscribe, send a message to: > nhnenews-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:nhnenews-unsubscribe%40yahoogroups.com> > > To review current posts: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/messages > http://www.nhne.org/tabid/1044/Default.aspx > > NHNE's Mother Ship: > http://www.nhne.org/ > > NHNE Pulse: > http://nhne-pulse.org/ > > Sunfellow & NHNE on Twitter: > http://twitter.com/sunfellow > > Integral NHNE: > http://integralnhne.ning.com/ > > Published by David Sunfellow > NewHeavenNewEarth (NHNE) > eMail: n...@... <mailto:nhne%40nhne.org> > Phone: (928) 257-3200 > Fax: (815) 642-0117 > > P.O. Box 2242 > Sedona, AZ 86339 >
