Comments on: How and Why Greenland Glaciers are Accelerating http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/how-and-why-greenland-glaciers-are-accelerating/ Social and political commentary with a special emphasis on global warming and climate change Wed, 25 May 2011 15:52:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Scott Supak http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/how-and-why-greenland-glaciers-are-accelerating/#comment-712 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:39:57 +0000 http://climaticidechronicles.org/?p=1873#comment-712 So, a hand basket dropped into hell does accelerate the same as anything else (32ft/sec squared)…

]]> By: Richard Pauli http://climaticidechronicles.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/how-and-why-greenland-glaciers-are-accelerating/#comment-709 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:25:02 +0000 http://climaticidechronicles.org/?p=1873#comment-709 Sea level rise is thought to accelerate the breakup of ice shelves – found mostly in Antarctica. The lifting ice, floating on a higher ocean, breaks off the shelf by uplift.

But if glacier calving into a sea level mouth of the glacier, then with rising sea levels then shouldn’t glacier movement also increase? Or maybe the rising ocean will penetrate further up under the glacier.

So does increased rate of change work to increase the rate of change?

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