The Greenland Glaciers
The glaciers are shrinking! The glaciers are shrinking!
It seems that the people who reported this didn't give up all of the data.
From the
Technology Commerce Society website:
Ice Storm
The latest issue of Science contains a paper by Eric Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam claiming that glaciers along the periphery of Greenland are melting at a rapidly increasing rate. Another paper on this subject was published by Science just last year. Ola Johannessen did not consider direct ice lost by glaciers into the ocean but instead only focused on elevations changes. Johannssen showed that increasing snowfall in Greenland was leading to greater ice accumulations than had previously been measured and this was acting to slow Greenland's contribution to sea level rise. It was conspicuously ignored in this new report.
People like this give Science (the study, not the paper) a bad name...
Posted by DaveH at February 22, 2006 10:15 PM