Photo: Global Warming Could Cool N. America in a Few Decades?

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Meltwater flows across the Greenland ice sheet in an undated picture.

A sudden influx of Greenland meltwater into the North Atlantic Ocean could chill down North America within just a few decades, a September 2009 study of ancient Canadian moss suggests.

Photograph by James Balog

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