Thursday, January 24, 2013

Greenland’s Ice Sheet More Stable Than Once Believed

Climate Central: The enormous sheets of ice that lie atop Greenland may not be as prone to catastrophic melting as many scientists thought, even if the planet continues to warm and temperatures remain high for hundreds of years. But while that may sound like good news, new evidence also suggests that parts of the even vaster ice sheets that lie atop Antarctica could be more unstable than once believed. That's the conclusion of scientists who have been drilling deep into the Greenland ice sheet since 2007, in a...

URL: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/greenlands-ice-surprisingly-stable-antarcticas-the-opposite-15500?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed
Enclosure: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11789

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