"Climate change is drastically affecting the Arctic, with temperatures rising nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet. New estimates show the Greenland ice sheet is losing 30 million tonnes of ice an hour. While the retreat of the inland ice will reveal more buried rock, Merrild notes that the melting is not a driving factor for the increased interest in exploration. After all, glacier melting takes a long time.

Arctic sea ice extent has been decreasing over the past five decades. This aspect of climate change presents a strange dichotomy for Greenland - a warming climate means changing ecosystems, sea level rise, and the disruption of ocean currents. But it also means Arctic ocean passages are opening up, creating easier transport of critical minerals used in green energy technologies - which will hopefully slow climate change."

BBC

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

Sea level in Greenland has been falling as the ice sheet thins, leading to isostatic rebound. Areas where ice sheets disappeared 10,000 years ago are still rising, slowly.

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wavewatcher - >ww - >wavewatcher, again

The land has been freed from a zillion pound of ice, so it's rising?

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I was right.

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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Denis Diderot