Galloping Glaciers of Greenland Have Reined Themselves In -- Kerr 323 (5913): 458a -- Science
Ice loss in Greenland has had some climatologists speculating that global warming might have brought on a scary new regime of wildly heightened ice loss and an ever-faster rise in sea level. But glaciologists reported at the American Geophysical Union meeting that Greenland ice's Armageddon has come to an end.Climate Research News » Greenland’s Ice Armageddon on Hold
So much for Greenland ice’s Armageddon. “It has come to an end,” glaciologist Tavi Murray of Swansea University in the United Kingdom said during a session at the meeting. “There seems to have been a synchronous switch-off” of the speed-up, she said. Nearly everywhere around south east Greenland, outlet glacier flows have returned to the levels of 2000. An increasingly warmer climate will no doubt eat away at the Greenland ice sheet for centuries, glaciologists say, but no one should be extrapolating the ice’s recent wild behavior into the future.
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Kerr (it's a news piece, not a scientific paper) is just playing catch-up with me. I've always stressed that Greenland's ice dynamics is far more complicated than the cartoon caricature in some descriptions. http://tinyurl.com/dotGreenlandComplex
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