Skeptics put the freeze on NASA ‘hot air’ about Greenland ice

Skeptics put the freeze on NASA ‘hot air’ about Greenland ice

July 26, 2012

Skeptics put the freeze on NASA ‘hot air’ about Greenland ice

Jeremy A. Kaplan
July 26, 2012
Fox News
NASA’s claim that Greenland is experiencing “unprecedented” melting is nothing but a bunch of hot air, according to scientists who say the country’s ice sheets melt with some regularity.

A heat dome over the icy country melted a whopping 97 percent of Greenland’s ice sheet in mid-July, NASA said, calling it yet more evidence of the effect man is having on the planet.

But the unusual-seeming event had nothing to do with hot air, according to glaciologists. It was actually to be expected.

surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet on July 8 (left) and July 12 (right).

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