23 Quotes by Eric Rignot

Whether the warming is effected by man is not something that we can directly determine with this study.

We did not look at one or two glaciers. We looked at all of them.

I don't think it will effect Californians immediately, It will effect storms along the coasts and we will see a measurable effect at sea level as a result of melting ice caps.

What we found is this is probably the dominant response of the ice sheets.

Greenland is probably going to contribute more and faster to sea level rise than predicted.

I think this will heighten concerns that maybe the sea-level models are a little too conservative.

What it means right now is that Greenland is producing 20 percent of the sea rise. We think that contribution will increase from generation to generation.

We are witnessing enormous changes, and it will take some time before we understand how it happened, although it is clearly a result of warming around the glaciers.

What surprised us was the magnitude of the changes.