Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot is Professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, and principal scientist for the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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I don't think it will effect Californians immediately, It will effect storms along the coasts and we will see a measurable effect at sea level as a result of melting ice caps.
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What we found is this is probably the dominant response of the ice sheets.
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A few years back, we thought ice sheets might grow because of increased precipitation. Now we see that rates of glacier flow are changing. We think the process that is winning overall is the rate of glacier flow.
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Climate warming can work in different ways, but generally speaking, if you warm up the ice sheet, the glacier will flow faster.
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The behavior of the glaciers that dump ice into the sea is the most important aspect of understanding how an ice sheet will evolve in a changing climate. It takes a long time to build and melt an ice sheet, but glaciers can react quickly to temperature changes.
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It takes a long time to build and melt an ice sheet, but glaciers can react quickly to temperature changes.
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The evolution of the ice sheet, in the context of climate warming, is more rapid than has been predicted by models.
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The Greenland ice sheet's contribution to sea level is an issue of considerable societal and scientific importance.
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I think this will heighten concerns that maybe the sea-level models are a little too conservative.
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We are witnessing enormous changes, and it will take some time before we understand how it happened, although it is clearly a result of warming around the glaciers.
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What it means right now is that Greenland is producing 20 percent of the sea rise. We think that contribution will increase from generation to generation.
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Whether the warming is effected by man is not something that we can directly determine with this study.
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Greenland is probably going to contribute more and faster to sea level rise than predicted.
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What surprised us was the magnitude of the changes.