[cogitator]

Greenland had a hot summer in 2005. I guess they haven't processed 2006 data yet, and it's still the summer of 2007.

[xcamel]

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[Young Werther]

Been there and seen more than most. If 2 cubic miles of icecap is melting each year the cap will be completely gone in about 6000 years!!!!

Wowser! Of course all life on Earth will be extinguished by the 2029 asteroid if it hits the Earth. Which do you think is the more pressing problem?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Nice image. Thank you.

What is the accepted volume of Greenland’s ice cap: I know in places it is very thick (over 5000 feet in limited regions), but in others it is only a few hundred feet thick.

Too many people look at a Mercator projection map and think the Greenland ice cap is uniformly 5000 ft thick and thousands of times larger than it really is.

[kidd]

I've got some pictures too:

This map (left) shows key areas of Antarctica, including the vast East Antarctic ice sheet. The image on the right shows which areas of the continent's ice are thickening (coloured yellow and red) and thinning (coloured blue). © (Left)British Antarctic Survey, (Right)Science

The thing is...the East Antarctic ice sheet has nearly 80% of the world's ice (and its growing). Greenland has less than 10% of the world's ice. I read one source that had the growth of the East Antarctic ice sheet at five times what Greenland was losing.