[And, we note the appearances of former climate scientist hunks of the month Jason Box and Alun Hubbard!]
by Peter Sinclair, Yale Climate Forum, September 11, 2014
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PEi0Retg8A
Transcript
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in the last 11 years we have a high-quality satellite measurements
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love the mass a Greenland and Antarctic ice
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and it shows a doubling the
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mass loss rate in the past decade
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way
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the
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and new data from the European Space Agency's krauss admission
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shows that the Greenland ice sheet equal to 22 feet above sea level rising
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has more than doubled its meltwater output in the last five years
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your across the surface in the shower she
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is rampant and idk
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causing I'm told damage to basically I sheet
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and it's doing math in deep interior regions that never before
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not least in the last ten thousand years have
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been susceptible to that woman in early August
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the short summers dwindling and South West Greenland no longer gets twenty
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four hours of sunlight
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descending into in erie Twilight for several hours each night
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streams lakes and ponds that cover the surface during sunny hours
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slow their flow begin to free I'll
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when sunshine returns strongly the melting process begins again
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head
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in areas where Dustin algae dark and the snow the process is even more rapid
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and streams quickly returned to rush in Torrance
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doing
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across the a sheep thousands and nameless short-lived lakes
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dot the landscape Mike
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lakes have been forming higher up on the inland I she'd
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the lakes can be nine square kilometers in area
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in a form all over the ice sheet many thousands of them
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and these have been increasing in number and in areas
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because that their dark color the absorb sunlight there like big solar collectors
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good
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one of the most striking can has it is features at the Greenland ice sheet
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are the places where rushing water plunges deep into the ice
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called Moreland's after the French word for male
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and at these points
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not water with all its story he'd penetrates deep into the a sheet
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and is now Terios expand delivers want two regions that have been frozen solid
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for many millennia
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this morn
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is large enough to swallow a school bus I'll
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dramatic event that occurs with many of the lakes
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is the drain abruptly sending an enormous volume of water down
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into the ice sheet spreading out at the bed
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lubricating eye she flow producing
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dramatic fast acceleration said
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this increasing supply have no water draining into the icy
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is adding heat to the ice which softens the ice
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leading it to low faster under its own way meltwater continues to flow
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in some areas reaching a calving front
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good giant glacier walls push icebergs relentlessly into the sea
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in good
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in the meltwater thats jetting out
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under the front a marine terminating glaciers like a Jacuzzi
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forces heat exchange with the warmer sea water
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that melts and undercuts Glacier Point promoting
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icebergs having our my
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and that produces a an instant flow acceleration because that's less flow
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resistance
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when Burk's break off so that the direct connection between
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meltwater and flow speed at the glacier front
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as the greater flows faster the cracks there crevasses they
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they open up morale allowing more water to drain and
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in this process we call
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Hydra fracture that water acting under gravity
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actually helps the cracks open up faster
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this further promotes flow speed
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increase at every stage in the process
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the flow not water reinforces the other stages
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in a vicious cycle that accelerates loss advice
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it would glaciologist call a positive feedback
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accelerating ice loss in ways that scientists have only recently begun to
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quantify
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Greenland sea level contribution
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10 years ago was half a millimeter per year ten years later it's one millimeter
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period it's expected that that
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loss rate will continue to double it with
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periodo somewhere between five and
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and 12 years so the next decade Greenland's losing two millimeters per
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year
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the next decade four millimeters per year the next decade
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8 millimeters per year you take that to the end of the century
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and in the agreement I see is
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yielding about and one meter
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above sea level just from Greenland
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I'm so the mean sea level
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projections the recently been published by
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the IPCC are very likely underestimates because
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they don't contain all of the
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the process ease in the models that are used to make these projections
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I'll day
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the
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ruling the meeting
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the morning
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in
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