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Map Node  Claims about Greenland url anchor

Question Node  What are the Greenland arguments? url anchor

Answer Node  Greenland has only lost a tiny fraction of its ice mass url anchor

Con Node  Greenland's ice loss is accelerating & will add metres of sea level rise in upcoming centuries url anchor

Reference Node  http://www.skepticalscience.com/Greenland-lost-fraction-of-ice-mass.htm url anchor
Reference: http://www.skepticalscience.com/Greenland-lost-fraction-of-ice-mass.htm

Pro Node  Greenland is losing about 0.007% of its total mass every year url anchor

Greenland is losing about 0.007% of its total mass every year … seven thousandths of one percent lost annually, be still, my beating heart … And if that terrifying rate of loss continues unabated, of course, it will all be gone in a mere 15,000 years. url anchor
Reference Node  http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/23/on-being-the-wrong-size/ url anchor
Reference: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/23/on-being-the-wrong-size/

Answer Node  Greenland ice sheet won't collapse url anchor

Tags:  Greenland

Pro Node  The study indicates “Greenland’s ice may be less susceptible to the massive meltdown predicted by computer models of climate change.  url anchor

A July 6, 2007 study published in the journal Science about Greenland by an international team of scientists found DNA “evidence that suggests the frozen shield covering the immense island survived the Earth’s last period of global warming”. The study indicates “Greenland’s ice may be less susceptible to the massive meltdown predicted by computer models of climate change. The study found “Greenland really was green, before Ice Age glaciers enshrouded vast swaths of the Northern Hemisphere…somewhere between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago,” according to the article url anchor
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Con Node  When Greenland was 3 to 5 degrees C warmer than today, a large portion of the Ice Sheet melted. url anchor

Tags:  Historical precedent
Reference Node  http://www.skepticalscience.com/stable-greenland-ice-sheet.htm url anchor
Reference: http://www.skepticalscience.com/stable-greenland-ice-sheet.htm

Answer Node  Greenland is gaining ice url anchor

Tags:  Greenland

Pro Node  An international team of climatologists & oceanographers estimate Greenland’s interior ice sheet has grown 6cm per year in areas above 1 500m between 1992 and 2003. url anchor

An international team of climatologists & oceanographers estimate Greenland’s interior ice sheet has grown 6cm per year in areas above 1 500m between 1992 and 2003. Lead author, Ola Johannessen says sheet growth is due to increased snowfall brought about by variability in regional atmospheric circulation or the so-called North Atlantic Oscillation url anchor
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Con Node  Greenland on the whole is losing ice, as confirmed by satellite measurement. url anchor

Reference Node  http://www.skepticalscience.com/greenland-cooling-gaining-ice.htm url anchor
Reference: http://www.skepticalscience.com/greenland-cooling-gaining-ice.htm

Answer Node  Greenland was green url anchor

Tags:  Greenland

Pro Node  Sallie Baliunas, a co-author of a 2003 study, refers to the medieval Viking sagas as examples of unusual warming around 1003 A.D.  url anchor

'The Vikings established colonies in Greenland at the beginning of the second millennium, but they died out several hundred years later when the climate turned colder,' she notes. url anchor
Tags:  Sallie Baliunas
Reference Node  http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/04.24/01-weather.html url anchor
Reference: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/04.24/01-weather.html

Con Node  Other parts of the earth got colder when Greenland got warmer. url anchor

Reference Node  http://www.skepticalscience.com/greenland-used-to-be-green.htm url anchor
Reference: http://www.skepticalscience.com/greenland-used-to-be-green.htm
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