The Daily Climate: Palin on Energy Edition

by Emily Gertz · 2008-10-30 07:27:00 UTC
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Sarah Palin's latest "energy speech" looms large in the latest blogging about the U.S. presidential campaign:

Image: Greenland Ice Sheet August 30, 2008; NASA Earth Observatory.  "Glaciologists have long been fascinated with the complex terrain of ice sheets, massive bodies of land-based ice in Greenland and Antarctica. In the past decade, ice sheet studies have increasingly focused on the likelihood that climate-induced changes in ice sheets could raise sea level—eventually forcing millions of coastal residents to relocate...

"Taken over northeastern Greenland, the top image shows (left to right) the eastern margin of the ice sheet, bare rocks of the coastline, and fragments of sea ice floating on the ocean surface. The black rectangle indicates the detailed view that is shown in the bottom image. In both the wide-area and zoomed views, the ice sheet margin appears pale blue-gray, which may be a sign it is saturated with water. Deeper blue pools of standing melt water dot the ice sheet’s surface."

Emily Gertz
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