Thunder? It's the sound of Greenland melting (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

ILULISSAT, Greenland (Reuters) -- Atop Greenland's Suicide Cliff, from where old Inuit women used to hurl themselves when they felt they had become a burden to their community, a crack and a thud like thunder pierce the air.

"We don't have thunder here. But I know it from movies," says Ilulissat nurse Vilhelmina Nathanielsen, who hiked with us through the melting snow. "It's the ice cracking inside the icebergs. If we're lucky we might see one break apart."

It's too early in the year to see icebergs crumple regularly but the sound is a reminder. As politicians squabble over how to act on climate change, Greenland's ice cap is melting, and faster than scientists had thought possible.

A new island in East Greenland is a clear sign of how the place is changing. It was dubbed Warming Island by American explorer Dennis Schmitt when he discovered in 2005 that it had emerged from under the retreating ice.

If the ice cap melted entirely, oceans would rise by 23 feet, flooding New York and London, and drowning island nations like the Maldives.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/06/greenland.warming.reut/index.html

[DKRC]

1. I don't think it's a matter of IF, but WHEN the ice cap melts completely...

and not just in Greenland. All the ice is melting around the world.
Some of us are going to have shoreline property where we didn't before, and houseguests indefinitely when these cities drown. Everything that happened in New Orleans may just be the preview for the main feature.

[kestrel91316]

3. Correct.

[RestoreGore]

2. We Have Officially Entered That Period Of Consequences

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Oopers, Reuters/CNN, not BBC. Too late to edit. nt

[jarnocan]

5. issue # 1 STOP the war and put the $ toward helping slow G.W.

[XemaSab]

6. Good times.

:popcorn: