Friday, July 04, 2008

Another Warming Fear Drains Away

Global Warming Politics 
One of the major worries put forward by ‘global warmers’ is that melting water will lubricate the base of Greenland’s ice sheet, thus accelerating its slide into the oceans. This new Dutch study, led by Roderik S. W. van de Wal of the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, the University of Utrecht, and founded on detailed observations over 17 years, places a fast freeze on such fears, and shows that, far from speeding up, the western edge of Greenland’s ice sheet has actually slowed down by some 10% since 1991.

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