22. maj 2012, 09:07

Grønlands nye øer....

Debat > Klimavidenskab > Konsekvenser af klimaændringer > Grønlands nye øer....

20-01-2007 20:59

rick_uk

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' The Warming of Greenland' (16/1):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/science/earth/16gree.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

"All over Greenland and the Arctic, rising temperatures are not simply melting ice; they are changing the very geography of coastlines. Nunataks — "lonely mountains" in Inuit — that were encased in the margins of Greenland's ice sheet are being freed of their age-old bonds, exposing a new chain of islands, and a new opportunity for Arctic explorers to write their names on the landscape."

"This phenomenon — of an island all of a sudden appearing out of nowhere and the ice melting around it — is a real common phenomenon now."

"The general thinking until very recently was that ice sheets don't react very quickly to climate," said Martin Truffer, a glaciologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. "But that thinking is changing right now, because we're seeing things that people have thought are impossible."

Historien kan også læses her:

http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=67321

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