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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Scientific Effort Aiming To Confirm Climate Change Has Local Roots

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va – James Yungel has been flying the same stretch of Greenland since 1993 when scientists started to hear about a trend some were calling “global warming.”

Yungel is the Program Manager for Wallops Island Remote Sensing Team and he says the mission in the early years was to determine whether Greenland’s glaciers were losing ice and snow, or in scientific terms, mass balance.

Yungel says you only have to look at the Jacobshavn, which is Greenland’s largest glacier, to see that the mass balance of the ice is overwhelmingly negative.

“The ice and the front edge of that glacier have moved seven miles,” said Yungel. “You can really see the depression in the ice and that noticeable difference is something we’ve been seeing over the past 20 years.”

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I believe the same thing happened around the 1100's or 1400's when it got so warm they were growing grapes in Northern England which produced a wine better than the French. This led to France banning the imports from England. This was followed by a period of extreme cold known as the 'Dark Ages'!

Anonymous said...

Meanwhile, in the Antarctic, the crew of the icebreaker ice cap research vessel are still trying to get it freed from being frozen in!

Anonymous said...

4:18 It was called "The Dark Ages" because there were so many Knights.