Greenland glaciers melting slower in the heat
A new study has discovered that Greenland’s icecap actually melts more slowly in hotter weather, suggesting it might be more resilient to global warming than previously thought. A team of researchers from the UK have studied satellite pictures of glaciers in Greenland over a five-year stretch and found they actually melt more in cooler summers than warmer ones.
While the scientists stop short of saying that the glaciers are safe from climate change, they do conclude that the acceleration of the melting could be less harmful than previously thought.
The group found that in all the years studied, the start of summer coincided with an increase in meltwater which ran between the bottom of the glacier and the rock it stood on. In hot years, however, this process seemed to stop earlier than in colder years, leading to 60 percent less melting overall.
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