[NormsRevenge]

maybe quakes and volcanos elsewhere react and next thing yaknow..

best put some ice on it..

[NormsRevenge]

An iceberg carved from a glacier floats in the Jacobshavn fjord in south-west Greenland in this undated handout photograph released on September 20, 2006. REUTERS/Konrad Steffen/University of Colorado/Handout/Files

[April Lexington]

Someone should mention this to Jack and the Beanstalk! This is series!

[marstegreg]

Last time that happened (when the ice age ended) as greenland rose England got lower (they found a stone age city, dwellings, animal bones,etc in the water between England and Europe). I only mention this because this will probably be brought up to prove their climate theories.

[givemELL]

“we can actually see the land uplift in response.”

It would not be magma from below would it?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7127706.ece

[marron]

The ice is melting so fast in Greenland that the giant island is rising noticeably as the weight is lifted. In some spots, the land is rising 1 inch per year.

If true, I see this as a net positive.

A couple of years ago I saw an article (probably here at FR) about agriculture in Greenland. A guy there was starting to farm land that hadn't been farmed in a thousand years, and was making money and buying up more land. The temp average had gone up over the years something like a degree and a half, but that was enough to make the difference.

Another degree or so of warming would turn much of this earth into a paradise.

[wildehunt]

Well, good. Now we can rest assured there will be no flooding..

[DoughtyOne]

What the hell happened to the “we’re all going to die due to the melting ice-caps” Leftist theory of relativity?” How can this land be rising faster than the water?

And while we’re discussing this, could it just be that the earth may be rising because of sub-terrainian thrust, instead of reduced weight?

As for the Alps, seriously folks... give it a rest you lefties. Mountain ranges are known to rise due to tectonic shifts causing upward thrust.

[DallasDeb]

Is this a joke? I thought that when all the ice melted, the seas would rise and drown out the coastlines. Am I right? This sounds like crazy science to me.

[Domandred]

Maybe Greenland will turn green (the color not the policy) ... again.

[fireforeffect]

At that rate we won't need rockets to get to space.

[isthisnickcool]

SHELIA JACKSON-LEE: "I'm concerned that eventually Greenland will become so light that it may float up in to space and then land on the flag on Mars that the astronauts left there".

HANK JOHNSON: "Oh no! Greenland may tip over like Guam is going to if the ice melts first on one side!"

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Except that, according to the European Space Agency's measurements the Greenland ice sheet is - on the whole - growing at about 5cm thickness per year.

Oops.

[webheart]

You can always tell when the turn of the seasons moves Spring to Summer. Global warming alarmism works better in the Summer. Just this morning, a story on the radio said that this past April was the warmest April on record, worldwide. The reporterette was just beside herself reporting the story, she had such a tone of “I told you so!” Then this. Expect more global warming stories in the next few months as the public opinion pendulum swings back towards Al Gore.

[the_daug]

I said before the oceans would not rise because the added pressure would push down on the sea floor as satire but if this is the case with melting ice on land then why not the bottom of the ocean too?

[Churchillspirit]

.....the whole world, including the United States, including all we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.

Winston Churchill 1940.

[OrangeHoof]

If it melts even more, it might tip over...

[Jack Hydrazine]

The ocean is rising at a rate of 0.049mm per year. We’re all going to die!

[centurion316]

Its called isostatic rebound and its been going on for about 14,000 years since the retreat of the continental ice sheets at the end of the last ice age. This rebound can be measured in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, everywhere that was covered by ice. The shocker would be that its not going on in Greenland. That would require a serious explanation. This sort of alarmism relies on the simple fact that most people aren’t geologists and don’t know the history of Pleistocene North America. Any Geology grad student would shrug his shoulders, and then write a grant request for $5,000,000 to study this threatening phenomenon.

[R_Kangel]

Using this logic does this mean then that the earth is also getting bigger since the ice is disappearing from the planet?

[bert]

Greenland is rising because the Icelandic rift is widening. The plate is moving westward and raising Greenland out of the Atlantic.

For ever action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The volcano in Iceland is the action. The subduction under Greenland is the reaction.