According to some estimates the bedrock beneath the Greenland Sea could hold more oil than the North Sea, which has partially powered the British, Dutch and Norwegian economies for decades.
This causes cracks to appear in the ocean seafloor -- this is what we think, " explains Buckland, adding "So you can measure what's happening to the landmass of Greenland by looking at the sea.
That breathing space would be useful if something really bad, such as the collapse into the sea of part of the Greenland ice-shelf, was in imminent danger of happening, and the realisation of the danger led to a political agreement that climate change had to be stopped rapidly.
Purves, a no-nonsense, matter-of-fact former entrepreneur in Australia, told me that the sea around Greenland is so warm that up to 100 new species of fish have been found recently.
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Mechanisms on the verge of being instigated include loss of Arctic sea ice, shrinkage of the Greenland ice sheet, loss of Antarctic ice shelves, and shrinkage of the Antarctic ice sheets.
During the Holocene, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been relatively stable, as reflected in the stability of the sea level.
This means that we can expect more than the one-meter sea level rise projected for 2100, a fact that the rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet, as well as strong indications that the western part of the Antarctic ice sheet is also melting, strongly support.
Ways of life have been thrown into flux in Greenland as sea ice thaws and new shipping routes into the Arctic open up.
These changes may have resulted in earlier snow melt and exposure of darker rocks, soil and sea ice, leading to warming throughout Greenland in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries when soot levels were at their highest.
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So, look for energy resources to be coming from offshore Greenland, central Sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, the North Sea, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern and Western Siberia and the Caspian says Schlumberger.
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Sea Level is largely a function of the size of the ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica.
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Already, average sea level rise has doubled in a decade due to the destabilisation of the Arctic and Greenland ice shelves.
Yet that is just what is happening in Greenland, whose relatively warm and wet sheet is on course to melt completely, bringing the prospect of a sea-level rise of perhaps seven metres.
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