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ABC's Bill Blakemore brought us dynamic timelapse videotape for his global warming report from the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland. It was produced by University of Alaska glaciologist Jason Amundson, showing 20 minutes of flowing ice condensed into seven seconds. "The big question" posed by climatologists is whether the acceleration of the glacial flow "is the beginning of what they call the collapse of the entire Greenland ice sheet." Such melting of ice two miles deep, 2,000 miles long and 1,000 miles wide would raise sea levels by meters: "Anyone on the planet living near a coastline could be flooded out for good by mid-century." The news hook for Blakemore's report was a silent multifaith ceremony held on the so-called "galloping glacier" to pray for its survival.
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