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Yale Environment 360: Research into the last prolonged warm spell on Earth — an interglacial period roughly 125,000 years ago — shows that Greenland’s ice sheet may be more stable and Antarctica’s less stable than previous studies have shown. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin conducted a detailed study of the behavior of Greenland’s ice sheet during the previous interglacial era and discovered that the melting of Greenland’s glaciers probably accounted for about half of the 13 to 20 foot increase in global sea......
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Greenland’s Ice Sheet May Be More Stable than Previously Thought
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 29th, 2011
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