Climate change: Scientists find another threat to Greenland's glaciers lurking beneath the ice

CNN ^ | Feb 4, 2020 | Gisela Crespo

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Scientists have long known that higher air temperatures are contributing to the surface melting on Greenland's ice sheet.

But a new study has found another threat that has begun attacking the ice from below: Warm ocean water moving underneath the vast glaciers is causing them to melt even more quickly......

This ice sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by more than 24 feet.

[cuban leaf]

“This ice sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by more than 24 feet.”

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So?

People forget that the ice is always being increased and then melting.

It’s a cycle.

BTW, it was in the 70’s yesterday in Kentucky. Sunday it was only in the high 60’s. I got to grade my 1/4 mile driveway which had been needing it. It was a beautiful day for it.

[BuffaloJack]

Can we please stop with all the Chicken Little stuff?

[Raycpa]

Probably 24 millimeters.

[from occupied ga]

Climate change: Scientists find another threat to Greenland's glaciers lurking beneath the ice

Corrected version

Climate nonsense: CNN invents another phony narrative to bolster the myth that the sky is falling

They only time CNN gets anything right is when they accidentally put in the opposite of what they meant to say.

[Damifino]

OK - I am calling BS! To raise the worlds 139,400,000 square miles oceans 24 feet, Greenland's 836,300 square miles would have to melt off 4000.48 feet of ice (that is, if 100% of the island were ice covered).

Something doesn't compute here...

[existentially_kuffer]

Here we go again, more BS from CNN’s reporting!

[Vaquero]

Is that all? Hell thats not enough to give me waterfront property. Dang.

[Da Coyote]

Why even bother to link to a CNN article?
Really.
Truth is not their friend.
And science is most definitely NOT their friend.

[trebb]

Iceland uses geothermal heat - no way that could be relevant to Greenland.....Trump gave Greenland’s geothermal rights to the Russians....

[Maskot]

It’s a huge fire breathing water dragon! We are all going to die…

[Maskot]

Escape from New York comes to mind. Wilhelm Is going to need to increase the height of his wall bigly

[Psalm 73]

"OK here, as well. Bring it on!"

HOW DARE YOU!!

[raybbr]

I don’t buy the math at all. The volume of the glaciers is less than water. Unless the glaciers cover the earth there is no way enough melted water to increase the sea level by 24 feet. It’s BS.

[Alas Babylon!]

Let me be the first to ask...

How the Hell does a continental ice sheet, that sits over LAND, get warm ocean currents under it?

The Greenland ice cap is over land, not ocean. Very little sticks out into the water. Mostly the coast of Greenland is just barren, rocky peninsulas and fjords.

[Alas Babylon!]

Nanotalik, Greenland. A typical village on the Greenland coast:

I'm just puzzled as to how a warm ocean current gets under all that rock.

More photos of the Greenland coast here.

[C210N]

Scientists find another threat to Greenland's...

Too late, Denmark should have sold when they had the chance.

[oldasrocks]

But if it flushes out SF think of the turds floating in the ocean

[Egon]

This ice sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by more than 24 feet.

When floating ice melts, the height of the water level decreases, not increases.

Augh!

[GreyFriar]

Underneath the Greenland ice cap is land, or so I’ve always heard. If this is true, then how can ocean water be flowing under the Greenland ice cap to melt it?

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Scientists have long known

'Stopped reading right there' alert!!!