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To: cogitator

The only quantitative study I can find is about ice sheets in Antarctica accelerating when the locking ice shelves broke up. I haven't found anything on polar ice sheets breaking up, only non-polar. With the snow increasing in Greenland and Antarctica, it's hard to imagine a break-up from "disintegration".


16 posted on 10/23/2006 10:28:44 AM PDT by palmer (Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
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To: palmer
See this:

Greenland Ice Sheet Losing Mass

I have a Science reference for you; abstract looks interesting:

Surface Melt-Induced Acceleration of Greenland Ice-Sheet Flow

This is the mechanism that Hansen's worried about for ice-sheet collapse/disintegration; lubrication by meltwater of the ice flow zones.

17 posted on 10/23/2006 11:42:15 AM PDT by cogitator
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