A big crowd turned out at Blackheath last night to see Ian Brown & Tom Williams images of their Greenland trip earlier this year - see some Iceland pics here, with Greenland still to come: ianbrownphotography.au/?page_id=43. The inevitable question about climate change prompted a slightly hesitant response - it was too early in the season for obvious signs of melting after big snowfalls in the previous winter - although glaciers were clearly retreating. This video explains the current situation in Greenland - doubling of the ice mass loss rate in the past decade. On current trends Greenland alone will contribute 1m to sea level rise by the end of this century, highlighting just how conservative current IPCC projections are: Greenland 2014 - Follow the Water https://youtube/watch?v=_PEi0Retg8A
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 05:30:41 +0000