In some areas, the ice surface is melting so fast that it is perceptibly sinking, like the top of a mountain being bulldozed off; as a result, people in some settlements are getting more hours of daylight, as the sun rises over a newly lowered horizon.
And, unlike most of the world, sea levels here are mostly sinking, not rising. This is due in part to the fact that as the ice wastes, pressure is taken off the land, and the land is rising. In a largely roadless land, this presents potential blockages to navigation in heavily used but already often shallow coastal waters—the subject ofa separate investigation by Columbia scientists.
The researchers write that policymakers and civic institutions should "support the convergence of highly adaptive Inuit knowledge of Sila and local climate variability with climate scientists' knowledge," and that climate projections and historical insights derived from the ice sheet "be widely disseminated and integrated into Greenland's primary school educational curricula in concert with Inuit knowledge."
How can you have a say or an opinion if the information isn't given to you by the party that governs you.
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