Although retreating glaciers would provide more meltwater in the short term, the loss of glacier «insurance» could become problematic over the long term. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Counterintuitively, stronger global warming actually delays the peak by getting more meltwater from the ice as it's vanishing. (arstechnica.com)
As global warming continues to impact the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, with more meltwater streams and water tracks travelling across the landscape, more mineral phosphorus is likely to become available through rock weathering over centuries to millennia. (sciencedaily.com)