http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41197838/ns/us_news-environment/ Over the past 30 years, the area subject to melting in Greenland has been increasing" at about 17,000 square kilometers a year. "This is equivalent to adding a melt-region the size of Washington state every ten years," "Bare ice is much darker than snow and absorbs more solar radiation," The current contribution of Greenland ice melt to global sea level rise is about .02 inches a year, but the potential impact is enormous.
About a quarter the size of the United States, Greenland has about one-twentieth of the world's ice - the equivalent of about 21 feet of global sea rise were it to completely melt into the sea. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/707F4D8A0E6248D48D1A648A3244FAAA@dual ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
