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GLACIERS MELT, SCIENTISTS SEEK NEW DATA ON RISING SEAS By Justin
Gillis New York Times November 14, 2010 TASIILAQ, GREENLAND -
With a tense pilot gripping the stick, the helicopter hovered
above the water, a red speck of machinery lost in a wilderness
of rock and ice. To the right, a great fjord stretched toward
the sea, choked with icebergs. To the left loomed one of the
immense glaciers that bring ice from the top of the Greenland
ice sheet and dump it into the ocean. Hanging out the sides of
the craft, two scientists sent a measuring device plunging into
the water, between ice floes. Near the bottom, it reported a
temperature of 40 degrees. It was the latest in a string of
troubling measurements showing that the water was warm enough to
melt glaciers rapidly from below. ³That¹s the highest we¹ve seen
this far up the fjord,² sai