On 30/04/08 8:35, in article , "0BZN0"
wrote:

There's a big noise that Gore and Hansen made about melting in
Greenland. There is melting along the edges, but the ice is growing in
the middle,

The net changes is a LOSS of ice mass on Greenland. Recent satellite
measures are the most accurate, the 2003-2005 loss is at
101 cubic km per year, with an error estimate of 16 (Luthcke in 2006).
The less precise data from 1993-1998 4-50 and 1999-2004 (57-105) also
indicate an increase in ice loss.

Any comment like "melting along the edges, but the ice is growing in
the middle" is imprecise. In fact, it is intellectually dishonest
in the extreme.

Next the summer melt areas ON the cap have increased 450,000 sq km
to 600,000 from 1979 to now. These melt areas decrease the albedo
and increase the surface melting. The melt areas provide the water
when in penetrates downwards to lubricate and increase the ice
discharge into the ocean. Which is also occurring.