Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier

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The Kangerlussuaq Glacier ( Greenlandic for Great Fjord, often obsolete spelling Kangerdlugssuaq is used) is a glacier in East Greenland, which flows into the fjord of the same name. He became known for his role in the discussion about the melting of glaciers in Greenland and its dangers for the global climate awareness.

The Kangerlussuaq glacier ice from the Greenland ice sheet is transported to the Atlantic. About four percent of the ice production of the entire ice sheet found under this glacier into the sea, so that he produces the most ice of East Greenland glaciers all. With a flow rate of up to 14 km per year, or 1.6 meters per hour, he is one of the fastest- flowing glaciers of the earth. This speed was achieved in 2005 in the wake of climate change. Since then, the glaciers receded (annually up to four kilometers ) and has strong volume and thickness lost, the flow rate has decreased again. Nevertheless, he has been particularly shown by the Danish author Bjørn Lomborg as an example of a growing glacier. Critics accuse Lomborg claims to have confused with faster flow rate and growth of the glacier with the place Kangerlussuaq in West Greenland, where there is no glacier of that name.