Greenland melt accelerating, according to CU-Boulder study

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An iceberg calved in the the Jakobshavn fjord in 2005. The Jakobshavn Glacier has sped up two-fold in the last decade as the result of melt water lubricating the glacier bed. Credit: Konrad Steffen University of Colorado at Boulder
An iceberg calved in the the Jakobshavn fjord in 2005. The Jakobshavn Glacier has sped up two-fold in the last decade as the result of melt water lubricating the glacier bed. Credit: Konrad Steffen, University of Colorado at Boulder

The 2007 melt extent on the Greenland ice sheet broke the 2005 summer melt record by 10 percent, making it the largest ever recorded there since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder climate scientist.


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