The Fate of Greenland
Conkling, Philip (Island Institute)
Alley, Richard (Pennsylvania State University)
Broecker, Wallace
Denton, George (University of Maine)
Experts discuss how Greenland’s warming climate―seen in its melting ice sheets and retreating glaciers―could affect the rest of the world. Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interrupted only by scattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenland is covered by ice; its ice sheet, the largest outside Antarctica, stretches […]