Arctic Melt Update.

[Al Czervik]

In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.

That has led the university professor who spotted the wounds in the massive Petermann glacier to predict disintegration of a major portion of the Northern Hemisphere's largest floating glacier within the year.

The crack is 7 miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width of the 500-square-mile floating part of the glacier. Other smaller fractures can be seen in images of the ice tongue, a long narrow sliver of the glacier.

"The pictures speak for themselves," said Jason Box, a glacier expert at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University who spotted the changes while studying new satellite images.
Global warming sign? Huge Petermann glacier in Arctic is cracking -- chicagotribune.com

[FishHead]

From the Article:

University of Colorado professor Konrad Steffen, who returned from Greenland on Wednesday and has studied the Petermann glacier in the past, said that what Box saw was not too different from what he saw in the 1990s: "The crack is not alarming. . . . I would say it is normal."

[DeHannen]

Originally Posted by Al Czervik

In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.

That has led the university professor who spotted the wounds in the massive Petermann glacier to predict disintegration of a major portion of the Northern Hemisphere's largest floating glacier within the year.

The crack is 7 miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width of the 500-square-mile floating part of the glacier. Other smaller fractures can be seen in images of the ice tongue, a long narrow sliver of the glacier.

"The pictures speak for themselves," said Jason Box, a glacier expert at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University who spotted the changes while studying new satellite images.
Global warming sign? Huge Petermann glacier in Arctic is cracking -- chicagotribune.com

Don't you find this information being just a little too coincidental coming out right before the Democratic Convention.

[ChicagoMark]

It appears that the melting up North has accelerated.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A huge 19 square mile (55 square km) ice shelf in Canada's northern Arctic broke away last month and the remaining shelves have shrunk at a "massive and disturbing" rate, the latest sign of accelerating climate change in the remote region, scientists said on Tuesday.

Massive Canada Arctic ice shelf breaks away - Yahoo! News

Let's keep denying it. Maybe that way it will just go away.