23 Quotes by Eric Rignot

Climate warming can work in different ways, but generally speaking, if you warm up the ice sheet, the glacier will flow faster.

These findings call into question predictions of the future of Greenland in a warmer climate from computer models that do not include variations in glacier flow as a component of change. Actual changes will likely be much larger than predicted by these models.

The evolution of the ice sheet, in the context of climate warming, is more rapid than has been predicted by models.

The Greenland ice sheet's contribution to sea level is an issue of considerable societal and scientific importance.

The mass loss resulting from this glacier acceleration in Greenland is very significant. These are very active glaciers. They all end up in the ocean, discharge icebergs and are very dynamic. One you push them a little bit out of equilibrium, they start retreating very fast.