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Vanishing Ice
Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas
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Vivien Gornitz is a geologist and special research scientist with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research, and has served as an adjunct professor at Barnard. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in Geology/Mineralogy/Geochemistry and her B.A. from Barnard College in Chemistry.
PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Whither the Snows of Yesteryear?2. Ice Afloat¿Ice Shelves, Icebergs, and Sea Ice3. Impermanent Permafrost4. Darkening Mountains¿Disappearing Glaciers5. The Greenland Ice Sheet6. Antarctica: The Giant Ice Locker7. From Greenhouse to Icehouse8. Return to the Greenhouse9. The Importance of IceAppendix A. Anticipating Future Climate ChangeAppendix B. Eyes in the Sky¿Monitoring the Cryosphere from AboveAppendix C. Geologic Time ScaleGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
The Arctic is thawing. In summer, cruise ships sail through the once ice-clogged Northwest Passage, lakes form on top of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and polar bears swim farther and farther in search of waning ice floes. At the opposite end of the world, floating Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking. Mountain glaciers are in retreat worldwide, unleashing flash floods and avalanches. We are on thin ice--and with melting permafrost's potential to let loose still more greenhouse gases, these changes may be just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.