Greenland glacier moving rapidly

http://www.tnhonline.com/news/2004/12/10/News/Unh-Glaciologist.Clocks.A.Speedy.Greenland.Glacier-827328.shtml

 

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....UNH faculty member and glaciologist Mark Fahnestock recently made an important discovery, the end results of which are still very much unknown. Fahnestock co-authored a NASA-funded study that was published in the Dec. 2 issue of the scientific journal "Nature." In it, he concluded that the world's fastest glacier, located in Greenland and known as the Jakobshavn Isabrae, has doubled its speed in the last six years. .......

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the global temperature has risen nearly two degrees since the 1980s. While this might not seem like a lot to most people, it can make all the difference in an ice-covered region such as the arctic

 

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