We are Screwed

A new evaluation of the Greenland ice fields indicates that they are melting 2 orders of magnitude faster than previously believed.

If the Greenland ice sheet goes away, sea levels rise 7.2 meters, and that does not include the geological spring back from the removal of the weight of ice from the islands it up.

We are f%$#ed:

Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than previously calculated, according to a new model that takes into account the unique interaction between ice and water at the island’s fjords.

The new mathematical representation of glacial melt factors in the latest observations of how ice gets eaten away from the stark vertical faces at the ends of glaciers in GGreenland. Previously, scientists used models developed in Antarctica, where glacial tongues float on top of seawater — a very different arrangement.

"For years, people took the melt rate model for Antarctic floating glaciers and applied it to Greenland's vertical glacier fronts," lead author Kirstin Schulz, a research associate in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at University of Texas at Austin, said in a statement. "But there is more and more evidence that the traditional approach produces too low melt rates at Greenland's vertical glacier fronts."

The researchers published their findings in September in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Every time the scientists who study need to adjust their models, the numbers get worse.

I may have beach front property in the not too distant future.