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Weird jet stream behavior could be making Greenlands melting even worse, scientists say

2016-06-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: The vast northern ice sheet of Greenland melts every summer, pooling lakes of meltwater on its surface and losing fleets of icebergs from its finger-like glaciers. Thats not surprising -- its summer -- although in a warming climate, there are reasons to think these melt seasons are getting more intense, pouring more and more freshwater into the ocean. But when a group of scientists looked back at the last summer melt season -- 2015 -- they found something odd and troubling. Specifically,...

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