[cogitator]

So Greenland will get greener, it seems.

[PistolPaknMama]

Oh no! Where are the doomed guys? We're DOOMED!

[Jake The Goose]

Could it possibly be "SUMMER"

[RexBeach]

Greenland used to be green! That's why it's called Greenland. Go figure! :)

[Fighting Irish]

[agooga]

"studies suggest the shrinking ice sheet now contributes about 0.02 inch (0.5 millimeter) a year to global sea level rise."

So in a hundred years the sea level may rise about half a meter?

Fine. Next problem, please.

[FreePaul]

The article would make some sense if it covered several things:
1. How many cubic miles of ice in/on Greenland.
2. When did this current loss start.
3. When was the last "meltdown" in Greenland.

As written it is nothing but a typical scare piece about the earth melting and the seas rising.

[CindyDawg]

Summer is bad about doing that.

[Ancesthntr]

You know, it is called GREENland for a reason...because when the Danes/Vikings/Norsemen discovered the place it was, like, FREAKIN' GREEN! Meaning, no damned glaciers. So, if there are now glaciers then simple logic (which most enviro-freaks missed out on) would dictate that between its discovery and now, things got much colder, so that the glaciers formed. If the glaciers are now melting back somewhat, it ISN'T because of man-made global warming, it ISN'T Bush's fault, and Algore DOESN'T deserve to be President.

[Enchante]

It was "Greenland" before it became completely covered in ice.... guess there must have been global warming 1,000 years ago due to all those Viking SUVs and Medieval fossil-fuel power plants.........

[Lil'freeper]

An entrepeneuring type should go up there and bottle that meltwater and sell it. It could be the chic new "boutique water" with the added plus that drinking it prevents all that nasty freshwater from going into the oceans and messing up the environment....

[Thommas]

..studies suggest the shrinking ice sheet now contributes about 0.02 inch (0.5 millimeter) a year to global sea level rise. "That's a very big number," Chen said.

So contextually, this very big number suggests that after 100yrs., the seas will rise 2"? That really is huge..

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Thus scientists are keen to understand if the Danish-owned Arctic island (Greenland map) is losing more ice mass through melting and discharge of glaciers than it is gaining from fresh snowfall.

The Danes are up to no good. They are sprinkling pepper all over the glaciers to melt them. In twenty years they want Greenland cleared of ice so that Danes can relocate as Muslims sweep through Old Europe. It's got nothing to do with climate, its cultural. It's Jihad

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

[Names Ash Housewares]

JOIN US! Arrrrrgh.

[pabianice]

[the invisib1e hand]

surely it will all be gone by the time the 2008 election rolls around.

[Argus]

If this keeps up, the Vikings will be able to move back.

[Clint N. Suhks]

I just have one word...


SOLAR FLARES!

[Brad from Tennessee]

This research may have been financed by a solar energy company or an ethanol producers co-op. There is so much conflicting information it is impossible to know who is right, if anyone.

[Antoninus]

Faster than what? Faster than jellyfish are evolving into jelly doughnuts?