Excellent article Susan. You connect the unprecedented melting in Greenland with rising water levels worldwide, and the threat to community finance and risk management. The world is changing faster than most recognize. Kudos for the enlightenment.
We like simple explanations and yet the Greenland Ice Sheet is comprised of glaciers that will have differing types of responses-even if their story is the same overall-volume loss. I wrote a piece on this in 2011 for Skeptical Science (https://skepticalscience.com/Variations_in_Greenland_Glaciers.html)
and a paper by Moon et al (2014) did a good job of quantifying this thought. At that time many researchers were too focussed on having a singular model to fit glacier response.
Excellent article Susan. You connect the unprecedented melting in Greenland with rising water levels worldwide, and the threat to community finance and risk management. The world is changing faster than most recognize. Kudos for the enlightenment.
We like simple explanations and yet the Greenland Ice Sheet is comprised of glaciers that will have differing types of responses-even if their story is the same overall-volume loss. I wrote a piece on this in 2011 for Skeptical Science (https://skepticalscience.com/Variations_in_Greenland_Glaciers.html)
and a paper by Moon et al (2014) did a good job of quantifying this thought. At that time many researchers were too focussed on having a singular model to fit glacier response.