Eric Rignot Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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