Greenland thaw biggest in 50 years: report - Reuters

Source: Reuters

Greenland thaw biggest in 50 years: report
Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:39am EST

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO (Reuters) - Climate change has caused the greatest
thaw of Greenland's ice in half a century, perhaps
heralding a wider meltdown that would quicken a rise in
world sea levels, scientists said on Tuesday.

"We attribute significantly increased Greenland summer
warmth and ice melt since 1990 to global warming," a
group of researchers wrote in the Journal of Climate,
adding to recent evidence of faster Antarctic and
Arctic thaws.

"The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be highly susceptible
to ongoing global warming," they said. Greenland contains
enough ice to raise world sea levels by 7 meters (23 ft),
a process that would take centuries if it were to start.

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Preliminary data showed that 2007 would rank second or
third highest and confirm the last decade as the biggest
melt, said Edward Hanna of England's University of Sheffield
who led the study with colleagues in Belgium, the United
States and Denmark.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL156014420080115

75% of its summer ice.

Can you say, "tipping point"?

"Greenland contains enough ice to raise world sea levels by 7 meters (23 ft), a process that would take centuries if it were to start."

And I'm taking offers on the Brooklyn Bridge. Euros and Yuan only, please. :)

for another 100 years....yet all of a sudden 1/3 of it vanishes in one summer.....