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Okay, then Greenland.

This is the most current report on Greenland in my files.

Remember, the politicians are selling us an apocalpyse.

The hard data goes back only around 30 years. I would be interested in seeing what happened during the last warm spell in the 30s. Has anyone ever explained why the average on which anomalies are calculated stop in 2000? It's the same with Arctic and Antarctic sea ice data.

Below, the glacier image from the paper. Note that the furthest extent date is at the end of the Little Ice Age. Also note that the glacier itself is far to the right--what you are looking at in the middle is sea ice.

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/images/essays/greenland/g3-large.jpg


The terminus of Greenland's largest glacier, the Jakobshavn's Isbrae near the town of Ilulissat, retreated 0 to 500 m in 2007 (Fig. G3), continuing a retreat that began summer 2001 with a dramatic 11-km floating ice collapse (Weidick and Bennike 2007). The large ice lagoon called Tissarissoq at the south side of the fjord was flushed of ice by the end of the summer, ice-free probably for the first time since at least the onset of the Little Ice Age (ca. 0.4–0.1 ky BP). It is possible that Tissarissoq was ice-free before that time during the medieval warm period (ca. 1.1–0.5 ky BP).

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