Greenland

[JonA]

Have just seen the news. Apparantly the Greeland icecap is melting 10 times faster than than it has been. More water for sailing on!
Jonathan

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[BrendanS]

Have a look at forum threads. It's not exactly 'news'

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.ybw.com/cgi-bin/forums/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=ym&Number=428494&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1>click here</A>

and

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.ybw.com/cgi-bin/forums/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=ym&Number=429161&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1>click here</A>

They will explain a great deal

<hr width=100% size=1>Me transmitte sursum, caledoni

 

[extravert]

I went mountaineering there a few years ago. It snowed and snowed and snowed. We had to dig the tents out every 24 hours to stop them getting crushed. After a week you could not see where they were, because their tops were below the level of the new higher snow surface. We had to build a snow stairway from the tent door to the surface just to get out. Not much melting going on during that trip.

<hr width=100% size=1>Summer is what you expect - rain is what you get.

 

[Evadne]

Some of our lot (self included) are off to Greenland on a science expedition shortly, (see the programme events Greenland page <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/aui/>here</A> if you're interested). NERC always drops press releases just before this sort of thing happens. As there's not much new news at the moment, the press have probably picked up on this. The main problem with this is that I won't get any sailing in until September now, so I hope it rains and blows a hooley all August then settles down for a long indian summer.


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[Sybarite]

I hope you don't get buzzed all the time by yahoos riding around on skiddoos...!

John

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[Evadne]

So do I, we'll be offshore!

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