In this new website, www.greenlandmelting.com, you can browse maps of the surface melt on Greenland in each year from 1979. You can also look at years with extreme melt events, such as 2010 and 2011.
In this new website, www.greenlandmelting.com, you can browse maps of the surface melt on Greenland in each year from 1979. You can also look at years with extreme melt events, such as 2010 and 2011.
Climate deniers often pooh, pooh the “melting of arctic ice” with the logic that ice floating on the sea will not raise the sea level when it melts. True enough, but that simple logic ignores other effects of an ice-less Arctic Ocean. It also ignores the land ice north of the Arctic Circle in Greenland and other northern lands (Svalbard Islands and other places in Canada and Russia). Melting that land ice most certainly will cause sea level rise.
Is there a separate estimate of the volume of land ice on Greenland that is north of the Arctic Circle?