Greenland’s Glaciers Take a Breather By John Tierney Tags: climate change, glaciers, Greenland, ice, sea level Helheim Glacier in southeast Greenland, pictured in 2005, is one of the two glaciers that have slowed down in their flow to the sea. (Photo: NASA/Wallops) Greenland isn’t melting as fast as we feared.It was big news when the rate of melting suddenly doubled in 2004 as ice sheets began moving more quickly into the sea. That inspired predictions of the imminent demise of Greenland’s ice — and a catastrophic rise in sea level. But a paper published online this afternoon by Science...