GREENLAND FASTEST MELTING PART OF EARTH

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REUTERS - 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.

A total meltdown would take centuries but global warming, which climate
experts blame mainly on human use of fossil fuels, is heating the Arctic
faster than anywhere else on Earth. . .

Greenland, the world's largest island, is mostly covered by an ice cap
of about 624,000 cubic miles that accounts for a 10th of all the fresh
water in the world. Over the last 30 years, its melt zone has expanded
by 30 percent. . .

Two to three days' worth of icebergs from [one] glacier alone produce
enough fresh water to supply New York City for a year.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/06/greenland.warming.reut/index.html?fark


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