Massive Greenland Glacier unmoored

[Edwina Lee]

I just got this. Is this accurate? How should we check this information? [Original journal ref. at bottom of article.]

 

2015-11-12

Massive northeast Greenland glacier is rapidly melting

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151112150438.htm

 

No hard timescale in this article, but it appears that one massive glacier has broken off already, and its melt will raise oceans by 18".

Clearly, such a melt will be in the open Atlantic Ocean, and so in the next decade or so.

 

IPCC's worst projection is 3 metres by 2100, & at best 1 metre.

IPCC's Global Mean Sea Level Rise

https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/unfccc/cop19/3_gregory13sbsta.pdf

 

Original glacier article: 2015-11

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/11/11/science.aac7111