Posted on 12/02/2009 7:29:29 PM PST by NormsRevenge
With out any seismic activity to melt the Greenland ice any plausible rise in atmospheric temperatures would take decades to melt that amount of ice on Greenland.
And in those decades the melt off would simply flow in to the oceans and be mixed/diluted with the existing saltwater and have negligible effect on ocean currents.
As usual the press prints alarmist suppositions with no facts to back them up.
It snowed a bit today, off and on, no accumulation (so far).
I think we have a ways to go before any huge melts occur due to an increase in temperature:
WIKI: “On the ice sheet, temperatures are generally substantially lower than elsewhere in Greenland. The lowest mean annual temperatures, about -31°C (-24°F), occur on the north-central part of the north dome, and temperatures at the crest of the south dome are about -20°C (-4°F).”
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