NASA: Thinning of Greenland`s Ice Cap - Animation (2005)

2005.11.18. Based on recent research using NASA's airborne laser altimeter, scientists have identified pronounced thinning of Greenland's ice cap. In the following animation, blues indicate areas where the loss of ice is greatest, and yellows indicate regions that are apparently thickening. Gray areas indicate no significant change in ice thickness there. Notice how the thinning is most severe at the coasts. As ice melts near the edges, it gives up moisture to the slightly warmer air around it. That air rises to higher altitudes inland and the moisture precipitates out as snow, increasing inland elevations. Thus, a slight thickening in the interior supports observations of a greater net loss to the overall sum of Greenland's ice cap.

Credit: NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/icesat_billion.html

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• ice
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• global
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[m1aws]

In the Holocene period, Greenland was covered in conifers. Seems global cooling is hell to me!

[david222444]

Glad the ice is not advancing. Looks good to me , more warming please.

[TheSnoody]

Just let all the damn ice melt...who cares?

[ervin2]

@weallknowitstrue Haha way to turn reality on it's head. It's the republicans that said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and now those same people are saying that global warming is a fraud. How the hell do you manage to say that since republicans lied before, it must mean democrats are lying now? What the hell? Are you this stupid?

[weallknowitstrue]

There were NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - just as Dr. Hans Blix said; But, the Republican media machine didn't want us to hear that.

And, there is NO dangerous climate change caused by human carbon dioxide - just as the "independent scientists" are now trying to tell us! But, the Democrat media machine doesn't want us to hear that.

We are made to run from one boogieman to next, as each political party achieves its own agendas for them & their money mates.

SEE Professor Bob Carter