We don't think these are just bursts. We haven't seen any of these glaciers coming back to normal.
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The mass loss resulting from this glacier acceleration in Greenland is very significant. These are very active glaciers. They all end up in the ocean, discharge icebergs and are very dynamic. One you push them a little bit out of equilibrium, they start retreating very fast.Eric Rignot
These findings call into question predictions of the future of Greenland in a warmer climate from computer models that do not include variations in glacier flow as a component of change. Actual changes will likely be much larger than predicted by these models.
Eric Rignot
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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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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I think this will heighten concerns that maybe the sea-level models are a little too conservative.
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This is raising concern on the effects of the polar caps.
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