Greenland Ice Sheet Key To Our Future
Scientists tell the U.S. Congress that the entire Greenland ice sheet will vanish if temperatures rise 2 degrees centigrade, leading to a 23 foot sea level rise around the world.
Richard Alley, a geosciences professor at Pennsylvania State University told Congress that...
| Quote: "Sometime in the next decade we may pass that tipping point which would put us warmer than temperatures that Greenland can survive." |
He went on to say...
| Quote: What is going on in the Arctic now is the biggest and fastest thing that nature has ever done. |
Robert Bindschadler, a research scientist at the University of Maryland offered a more nuanced view:
| Quote: "While we don't believe it is possible to lose an ice sheet within a decade, we do believe it is possible to reach a tipping point in a few decades in which we would lose the ice sheet in a century." |
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