Monday, March 1, 2010

Here's a reason: warmer waters head north

Speaking of skeptics who know very little, Greenland is seeing warm water flooding the fjords:

Team Finds Subtropical Waters Flushing Through Greenland Fjord

"This is the first time we've seen waters this warm in any of the fjords in Greenland," says [Fiamma] Straneo. "The subtropical waters are flowing through the fjord very quickly, so they can transport heat and drive melting at the end of the glacier."


further on down, it says:

Sermilik Fjord, which is 100 kilometers (approximately 62 miles) long, connects Helheim Glacier with the Irminger Sea. In 2003 alone, Helheim Glacier retreated several kilometers and almost doubled its flow speed.

Deep inside the Sermilik Fjord, researchers found subtropical water as warm as 39 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius). The team also reconstructed seasonal temperatures on the shelf using data collected by 19 hooded seals tagged with satellite-linked temperature depth-recorders. The data revealed that the shelf waters warm from July to December, and that subtropical waters are present on the shelf year round.

"This is the first extensive survey of one of these fjords that shows us how these warm waters circulate and how vigorous the circulation is," says Straneo.


I wonder if Fiamma Straneo is part of the worldwide global warming data-faking hoax conspiracy. He must be, I guess.

Greenland


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