Rivers of glacial meltwater flowing over Greenland's frozen surface may be contributing as much to global sea level rise as all other processes that drain water from the melting ice sheet combined, according to researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and NASA. Eighty percent of Greenland, which is about the size of the United States west of the Rocky Mountains, is covered by ice, which has the potential to make a significant contribution to sea level rise as it melts.
So says NASA,
http://www.nasa.gov/...
Read it before it is taken down because who now heads the congressional oversight of NASA now.
Science-denier Ted Cruz.
Cruz has been made the chair for the Senate subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, which oversees NASA.
http://www.stockhouse.com/...
His counterpart at NOAA is just as bad.
Science-denier Marco Rubio.
Rubio will chair the subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, which oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
NOAA monitors the climate and records its changes.
http://www.climate.gov/...
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http://newsroom.ucla.edu/...