http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...,5559471.story

Gore's recital of climate facts in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth"
contains some flaws, but most experts agree he is correct on the
biggest point: The earth is on a path toward a perilously warm climate
and the release of greenhouse gases is playing a key role.




On Oct 14, 9:31 am, " wrote:
http://global-warming.accuweather.co..._moulin_1.html

Professor Robert Correll, chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact
Assessment

http://www.acia.uaf.edu/

said that newly invented ice penetrating radar showed that the melt
water was pouring through to the bottom of the glacier creating a melt
water lake 500 metres deep causing the glacier "to float on land.
"These melt water rivers are lubricating the glacier, like applying
oil to a surface and causing it to slide into the sea. It is causing a
massive acceleration which could be catastrophic."

Correll stated that one particular glacier puts enough fresh water
into the sea in one day to provide drinking water for a city the size
of New York for a year.

Correll believes that the estimates of a 20 to 60 centimeter sea level
rise this century from the IPCC report in February had been
"conservative" and feels that it would be at the upper end of this
range at a minimum. Some scientists fear that number could be 2 metres
(200 centimeters), which would obviously have catastrophic effects for
European and U.S. coastlines.