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Greenland’s sixty day melt season has begun with four billion tons of new snow. Over the past six years, ice gain on the Greenland Ice Sheet surface has been well above average, the only year which was significantly below average … Continue reading →

“Is the Arctic climate becoming more temperate? Remarkable new information, given by the famous Swedish authority, Professor H. Wilson Ahlmann, in a lecture to the Swedish Geographical Society, suggests that this may be the case. Professor Ahlmann was speaking on … Continue reading →

The Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland retreated very rapidly from 1850 to 1950, then stooped retreating through the end of the 20th century.  Now it is growing. There is no correlation with atmospheric CO2. Jakobshavn Glacier Grows for Third Straight Year … Continue reading →

Greenland’s Jakobshaven  glacier retreated eight miles between 1850 and 1903. 05 Dec 1903, Page 8 – Janesville Daily Gazette at Newspapers.com

“since the 1600s, Greenland ice sheet accumulation rates have increased. The estimated mean accumulation rate in the most recent 170 years (1840–2009) is 30% greater than the estimated mean accumulation rate in the 410 years since 1600” Greenland Ice Sheet … Continue reading →

“As had been observed in other parts of the Arctic, especially in Spitzbergen, the melting had increased rapidly. By far the largest number of local glaciers in northeast Greenland had receded very greatly during recent decades, and it would not … Continue reading →

Nine years ago, PBS announced that 97% of Greenland’s ice melted in four days. Greenland Goes Green: Ice Sheet Melted in Four Days | PBS NewsHour | July 25, 2012 | PBS

Bill Gates wants to exploit Greenland’s rare earth minerals. Billionaire-backed mining firm to seek electric vehicle metals in Greenland | Reuters The New York Times is saying they have to do it to save the world from global warming. 8:30 … Continue reading →

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