Earth's Heat Adds to Climate Change to Melt Greenland Ice(hotspots)

[loser_user]

Scientists have discovered what they think may be another reason why Greenland 's ice is melting: a thin spot in Earth's crust is enabling underground magma to heat the ice.

They have found at least one “hotspot” in the northeast corner of Greenland -- just below a site where an ice stream was recently discovered.

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/hotgreen.htm

[BruceW4yne]

1. Greenland Is Melting

Thanks for the link! Here's a related article on MSN --

SAN FRANCISCO - Global warming may not be the only thing melting Greenland. Scientists have found at least one natural magma hotspot under the Arctic island that could be pitching in.

In recent years, Greenland’s ice has been melting more and flowing faster into the sea — a record amount of ice melted from the frozen mass this summer, according to recently released data — and Earth’s rising temperatures are suspected to be the main culprit.

But clues to a new natural contribution to the melt arose when scientists discovered a thin spot in the Earth’s crust under the northeast corner of the Greenland Ice Sheet where heat from Earth’s insides could seep through, scientists will report here this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22246005/

[loser_user]

2. Your welcome

I love it when we discover new things about the Earth!