William Colgan PH.D., a glaciologist associated with the Geological Survey of Greenland and Denmark based in Copenhagen, predicts that oceans around the world will rise 10 inches should the entire glacier in Greenland melt.
Colgan, a Canadian who serves as editor of the “Journal of International Glaciology Society’s Journal of Glaciology” has reached his conclusion based on his study of Greenland’s glacier where zombie ice, the ice that is no longer being replenished by its parent glacier, may soon melt.
The reason that the parent glacier is no longer replenishing the zombie ice is due to a lack of snowfall that the parent glacier receives. Colgan and other climatologists perceive the reason for less snowfall is due to global warming.
Scientists have discovered that the meltwater from Greenland churns the ocean, and the churning action creates warmer water deeper in the ocean. The warmer water then speeds up the melting of the Greenland glacier as it pushes against the second-largest glacier in the world.
The melting ice has revealed what scientists describe as Sphinx-like fingers of rock and huge pyramids, not manmade as in Egypt. The ones in Greenland appear to be naturally formed.
During the 15th century, the Medieval Warm Period heated up the planet till it was warmer in parts than today despite the fact that there were no manmade industrial pollutions back then to blame for global warming as manmade industrial pollution are being blamed today.
The Norsemen settled in Greenland which got its name from the greenery there when they first arrived and began farming and fishing for a living. That was before the ensuing Little Ice Age ended their way of life and their existence in that part of the world.
What the current melting has uncovered can be described as visually stunning, huge granite mountains shaped like pyramids, raising the question, “What forces of nature shaped them?”
The Geikie’s Pyramid is located near Kangerlussuaq in Western Greenland. It dwarfs the manmade pyramids in Giza, Egypt, and the naturally formed stone outcroppings that remain partly buried in ice in Greenland resemble the shape of the toes of the Sphinx in Giza.
As for Colgan and his associates, they continue to study the Antarctica/Greenland Glacier which is part of the cryosphere, Earth’s frozen system.
