fuagf -- at this point I half expect that within my lifetime it will be obvious and confirmed that significant portions of the Greenland ice sheet are into not just accelerated melting but outright collapse -- and more than half suspect that mean sea levels will rise at least approaching 10 feet within the next 100 years
in any event, whether the process unfolds as quickly/dramatically as that or more slowly, it's just starting -- nowhere else has warming been more pronounced or persistent than it has been and continues to be in and around the Arctic -- unless that just reverses, Greenland, with waters all around it warmer and continuing to warm, the Arctic Ocean open in the summer and its once-permanent major ice shelves into those waters disappearing to already gone, is going to lose a lot of its ice
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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