Ground Zero of the climate change story is the calving face of the Jakobshavn Isbrae (isbrae means âice streamâ).
This four-mile-wide (6.4 km) wall of ice discharges more ice into the global ocean than any other glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. During the past ten years, its flow rate has doubled, apparently in response to warming temperatures and more meltwater lubrication at its base. It now sends 11 cubic miles of ice out to sea. According to local lore, the iceberg that sank the Titanic came from this glacier.
