"How is that possible? Think of a trampoline. 'The weight of that person is going to make the trampoline sag beneath them,' explains Kathleen Compton, a graduate student in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona. 'If they hop off, the trampoline regains its shape. It's a similar phenomenon going on with the Earth. The weight of the ice is so much that it makes the surface of the Earth sag.'"…world-renowned (no kidding) geoscientist (no kidding) Kathleen Compton (really) makes a splash with all kinds of stuff about ice caps and volcanos and Iceland (we’re not making any of this up) in an interview on Public Radio international and in the Arizona Daily Star, Daily Mail Online, and TIME. (And here. Of course.)
If we can get a link to this paper we will put it in our Work Avoidance Hall of Fame. (Also, we’re looking into beachfront property in Iceland.)
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