Although that statement is true, it is also fair to point out it is highly misleadng. Greenland's ice cap is thousands of feet thick, so even though half of it is melting, that does not mean it has melted away. Even at the current extreme temperatures of this heat wave, it would still take centuries for the entire ice cap to melt down to bare rock.

I know its a nit-picking distinction, and should be obvious to anyone who gives it even the slightest thought, but you can count on the denialists seizing on that little misunderstanding to "prove" how the "climate alarmists" have no idea what they are talking about.

Even so, to observers on the ground, the situation is dramatic. Melting ice from all over Greenland is causing massive flooding, coastal communities are threatened, navigation is imperiled, and travel in the interior is very dangerous. Wildlife and fishing is severely affected, and brushfires have broken out in areas that only a few years were permanently under ice and snow..