{"id":2462,"date":"2006-06-25T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2006-06-25T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T16:03:00","slug":"slip-and-slide-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/06\/25\/12\/03\/slip-and-slide-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Slip And Slide Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/la-sci-greenland25jun25,0,6885120,full.story\">Should all of [Greenland&#8217;s] ice sheet ever thaw, the meltwater could raise sea level 21 feet and swamp the world&#8217;s coastal cities, home to a billion people &#8230; the glaciers of Greenland are melting twice as fast as they were five years ago &#8230; The increasingly erratic behavior of the Greenland ice has scientists wondering whether the climate, after thousands of years of relative stability, may again start oscillating &#8230; computer models on which climate predictions are based did not take the dynamics of the glaciers into account &#8230; the monolith of ice is constantly on the move &#8230; [they have] accelerated in response to warmer temperatures, as summer meltwater lubricated the base of the ice sheet and allowed it to slide faster toward the sea. In a way no one had detected, the warm water made its way through thousands of feet of ice to the bedrock  in weeks, not decades or centuries &#8230; On the eastern edge of Greenland, the Kangerlussuaq Glacier, like the Jakobshavn, has surged, doubling its pace. To the west, the Helheim Glacier now appears to be moving about half a football field every day &#8230; If they all slide too quickly, there is a possibility that &#8230; they could collapse suddenly and release the entire ice sheet into the ocean.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should all of [Greenland&#8217;s] ice sheet ever thaw, the meltwater could raise sea level 21 feet and swamp the world&#8217;s coastal cities, home to a billion people &#8230; the glaciers of Greenland are melting&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}