23 Quotes by Eric Rignot

We don't think these are just bursts. We haven't seen any of these glaciers coming back to normal.

The southern half of Greenland is reacting to what we think is climate warming. The northern half is waiting but I don't think it's going to take long.

A few years back, we thought ice sheets might grow because of increased precipitation. Now we see that rates of glacier flow are changing. We think the process that is winning overall is the rate of glacier flow.

This is raising concern on the effects of the polar caps.

It's likely that Greenland is going to contribute more and faster to rising sea levels than previously estimated.

The behavior of the glaciers that dump ice into the sea is the most important aspect of understanding how an ice sheet will evolve in a changing climate. It takes a long time to build and melt an ice sheet, but glaciers can react quickly to temperature changes.

It takes a long time to build and melt an ice sheet, but glaciers can react quickly to temperature changes.

This is clearly a result of warming around the periphery of Greenland.

In the future, as warming around Greenland progresses further north, we expect additional losses from northwest Greenland glaciers, which will then increase Greenland's contribution to sea level rise.