Massive Greenland meltdown? Not so fast, say scientists

Filed under:General — posted by 3wire on 1/14/2009 @ 9:09 am

From: PHYSORG.com

The recent acceleration of glacier melt-off in Greenland, which some scientists fear could dramatically raise sea levels, may only be a temporary phenomenon, according to a study published Sunday.

Researchers in Britain and the United States devised computer models to test three scenarios that could account for rapid — by the standards applied to glaciers — melting of the Helheim Glacier, one of Greenland’s largest.