SEARCH
A great gift
for crisis deniers!
Humoring the Horror of the
Converging Emergencies
94 color pages
$24.99 now $15!
Or read FREE online!
Twitter
Ping this story
in social media:
del.icio.us
Digg
Newsvine
NowPublic
Reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
Scientists capture dramatic footage of Arctic glaciers melting in hours http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1235324440
Glaciologist Jason Box has been testing a Moulin, a shaft that allows water to travel from the glacier's surface to its bottom, in a glacier on the Greenland ice cap to find out how fast it is melting.
Dr Box said: "The Moulin is the epicentre of our concern because all the water is running down at this one point.
"It's just bottomless, no light escapes."
Balanced on the edge of an ice sheet the team used a flow meter to measure the water speed.... The team found that in just one day 42 million litres fresh water drained down this one Moulin. Dr Box thinks there are hundreds, possibly thousands more Moulins across the Greenland ice cap.
Greenland is losing enough water each year to cover Germany a metre deep.
Dr Box, from Ohio State University, thinks the way to combat melting glaciers is to cover them with blankets that will reflect the sun's rays.
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
[Read more stories about:
arctic meltdown, faster than expected]
|
 |
|
New!:
| |
|
Your Quips:
vegg says: ""chilling" video goes w/ this story"
Curmudgeon says: "Any more stories like this, and I'm going to have a meltdown."
| |
|
Got a PaniQuip?
|
|
|
We reserve the
right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.
| |
|
|
'Doc Jim says:
|
|
|
 |
|
Blankets... now that's thinking outside the Dr. Box!
|
|
|
|
|
Want to explore more?
Try the PaniCloud!
|
