ACIA Logo“Dr Corell … had flown over the Ilulissat glacier and “seen gigantic holes in it through which swirling masses of melt water were falling. “

Robert Corell, chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment:

“I first looked at this glacier in the 1960s and there were no holes. These so-called moulins, 10 to 15 metres across, have opened up all over the place. There are hundreds of them.”

This melt water was pouring through to the bottom of the glacier creating a lake 500 metres deep which was causing the glacier “to float on land. These melt-water rivers are lubricating the glacier, like applying oil to a surface and causing it to slide into the sea. It is causing a massive acceleration which could be catastrophic.”

The Guardian.

Via Boing Boing: “The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off.”