GREENLAND ICE CAP GROWTH – ESA SATELLITE DATA
November 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLGLOBAL warming doomsayers regularly warn of a catastrophic meltdown of Greenland's ice cap, switching off the North Atlantic Drift, plunging Britain into the nightmare of Siberia-style winters and turning southern Europe into a desert. But they should check the latest data from the European Space Agency (ESA): it says the Greenland ice cap is getting bigger. Not wider - there is clear evidence that it is shrinking on its coastal fringe - but deeper, in the middle of this giant icy island. An international scientific team led by Norway's Nansen ...
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