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From: TimF11/20/2007 2:58:35 PM
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The Cold Truth about Greenland

by Patrick J. Michaels

Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist, is author of Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media...

...New satellites tell us that Greenland -- mainly southern Greenland -- is shedding ice at the rate of 25 cubic miles per year. If Greenland lost most of its ice, sea levels would rise 20 feet or so. Greenland is by far the largest mass of ice in the Northern Hemisphere, with roughly 10 percent of the world's total.

Greenland's total ice volume is 680,000 cubic miles, and it is losing four ten–thousandths of its ice per year. Do the math. That works out to 0.4 percent of its total mass per century...

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