Alarm signals from the ice cap

  • 28/06/2008

  • Week (Kochi)

New data from Greenland shows that the UN's dire warnings on global warming may be vastly understated------- In 1990, when climatologist Konrad Steffen established Swiss Camp, one of the first automatic weather stations on Greenland's ice sheet, global warming wasn't high on his agenda. Steffen's aim was to begin filling in gaps in scientists' understanding of the processes that drive