FILE - In this July 19, 2011 file photo, rows of pressure ridges stack up, foreground, before tumbling over the ever-collapsing wide front of Jakobshavn Glacier and into the Ilulissat ice fjord, background, in Greenland. Greenland's glaciers are hemorrhaging ice at an increasingly faster rate, but it's not the breakneck pace scientists once feared, a new study says. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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Scientists at NASA were amazed to discover that on 11 and 12 July surface melting had extended across 97 per cent of the ice sheet the most widespread melting they have witnessed in Greenland due to unusually high temperatures over the entire ice sheet.The vast ice sheet of Greenland, which holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 7.2 metres, underwent a remarkable transformation for a few days this month when scientists observed an unprecedented melting of its frozen surface.
For the first time since satellites began recording changes to Greenland from space more than 30 years ago, scientists observed surface melting across almost the entire ice sheet — the second largest body of ice after Antarctica.
Read more about The big thaw: Greenland ice cover is melting away on The Independent.
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@atl134,
Are you positively claiming that "human-caused influences" added to it? If so, where if you scientific evidence?
Here is the bottom line regarding the hypothesis of man-caused global warming (AGW):
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The referenced article (in this article) also indicated that "...ice cores from the Summit on Greenland show that melting events of this type occur once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on More..
Re: atl134 Salt Lake City, UT
Those that believe in Global Warming should do their part in reducing it by turning off their electricity and buying some carbon credits.