Study: Greenland faces land crisis as global warming heats up (The State Column)

[Drew Wilson]

A new study released Friday finds that Greenland has risen in recent years as the rate of ice melting has increased, a startling revelation that scientists attribute to global warming.

Speaking at a conference on Friday, a team of scientists from Ohio State University said a network of 50 GPS stations measured the uplift as the ice loss, noting that the rate of ice loss has accelerated in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons. The study was lead by Ohio State University researcher Michael Bevis.

Mr. Bevis noted that an unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons, which led to large portions of the island’s bedrock rising an additional quarter of an inch. The discovery was noted by the team in a paper released ahead of the conclusion of a key global climate change conference in Durban, South Africa.

“Pulses of extra melting and uplift imply that we’ll experience pulses of extra sea level rise,” said Mr. Bevis. “The process is not really a steady process.”

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One of my projects I had to do in classes recently revolved around global warming. My research indicated that if all of Greenland were to melt, ocean levels would rise by 4 to 6 metres. Let's just say, at that amount of ocean water rise would mean Vancouver's lower mainland would become a tiny little set of islands and sandbars. It only gets scarier from there.

[Aaron_Walkhouse]

Only for people who own land at seashores, and even they have decades to move inland.