I have flown over Greenland about 100 times in the last 15 years. Return flights from Europe to the western US fly over southern Greenland in mid-afternoon, so you frequently get a good view of the ice sheet. I always make sure that I have a good view, because it is an amazing sight to see mountains buried under snow.
A few years ago my mother commented “It must look a lot different than it did in the 1990s” based on what she hears on NPR. I responded – “no it looks exactly the same. I can’t see any difference at all.”
Times Atlas says that 15% of the ice has melted, and NASA says that 97% of the ice melted this summer.
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The number 97 must be have some sort of numerological meaning for alarmists, because it certainly has no quantitative relationship with the subjects to which they associate it.
97% of all global warming research money is obtained and used fraudulently.