Greenland

Greenland may be green again. It amazes me that the amount of ice that melted this year raised sea level by 2/100th of an inch. The oceans are huge. Just think if all the ice melted.

Greenland is about one-fourth the size of the United States and about 80 percent of it is covered by the ice sheet. One-twentieth of the world's ice is in Greenland; if it all melted it would be equivalent to a 21-foot (6.4 meter) global sea level rise, the scientists said.

It seems that magma may be heating Greenland from below as well. Perhaps we have the makings for the perfect storm.

The newly discovered hotspot, an area where Earth’s crust is thinner, allowing hot magma from Earth's mantle to come closer to the surface, is just below the ice sheet and could have caused it to form, von Frese and his team suggest.