(Posted by John.)
In the LA Times:
JAKOBSHAVN GLACIER, Greenland — Gripping a bottle of Jack Daniel'sbetween his knees, Jay Zwally savored the warmth inside the tiny planeas it flew low across Greenland's biggest and fastest-moving outletglacier.
Mile upon mile of the steep fjord was choked with icy rubble from theglacier's disintegrated leading edge. More than six miles of theJakobshavn had simply crumbled into open water.An
The article gets scarier.