Monday, September 10, 2007





Scientists fear ice caps melting faster than predicted

The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off.

Scientists monitoring events this summer say the acceleration could be catastrophic in terms of sea-level rise and make predictions this February by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change far too low.

The glacier at Ilulissat, which supposedly spawned the iceberg that sank the Titantic, is now flowing three times faster into the sea than it was 10 years ago.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

meh- been saying this for decades. Nothing's gonna happen.

Anonymous said...

Wow. I had no idea President Bush would comment on your blog, Mac.
(see above-meh, indeed)