Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Another sign of global warming




I quote from a story on ABC News about the Greenland ice sheet:
According to satellite data, an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July.
We reported last month on the “Unprecedented May Heat In Greenland,” where the temperature hit 76.6°F. So it would seem that unprecedented heat leads to unprecedented melting.
The melting of ice sheets means at the least that the environment in Greenland is changing and  sea levels are likely to rise. The massive flow of fresh water into the North Atlantic may have results that we can not predict.

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