The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change

Abstract

This volume hopes to capture the intense excitement of the past decade of research that continues to improve our scientific understanding of what Greenland’s ice cap, glaciers, and seas are telling us about how climate changes, and how through linkages in the natural system those changes have spread across the globe. The discoveries of the scientists who have been leaders in this field, especially Wallace Broecker at Columbia University, George Denton at the University of Maine, and Richard Alley at Penn State, along with the contributions from more than a hundred of their colleagues who have been working around the world for much of the past decade, have brought the remote island of Greenland to the center of the understanding over how abruptly climate has changed in the past.