Sea ice levels are quite important to the discussion surrounding climate change. This is because changes in sea ice volume are considered the most tangible impact of changes in global temperature levels. Climatologists and climate change enthusiasts have thus always followed the changes in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice volume. And Greenland also has been at the center of attention, as it hosts the largest ice mass outside of the polar regions. Of the three regions, Antarctica has seen the … [Read more...]
Study Attributes to “Climate Change” what Really Came from a 2012 Greenland Weather Event
Chelsea Harvey in reported in the Washington Post: “Rising global temperatures may be affecting the Greenland ice sheet — and its contribution to sea-level rise — in more serious ways tha[n] scientists imagined, a new study finds.” What’s up with this? The concern is about the “firn”—a porous sheet of snow that slowly freezes into ice over time as more and more snow accumulates atop it but can absorb melt water in the meantime. According to the study, a layer of ice several meters thick has … [Read more...]
