Greenland Quotations

It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.

I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely.

We know when the sea level was that high in the past, and we know how much warming is necessary to get that amount of sea level rise from both Greenland and Antarctica.

Personally, I think Greenland is the team to beat. They're loaded with a lot of talent at the skill positions. Charleston is always going to be right in the thick of it, but Greenland looks pretty tough.

Greenland was perceived as this huge solid place that would never melt. The evidence is now so strong that the scientific community is convinced that global warming is the cause.

Greenland presently makes the largest contribution to sea level rise,

Greenland is probably going to contribute more and faster to sea level rise than predicted.

We just committed too many errors against a good team. Give Greenland credit, they were able to take advantage of it. Every team has one of these days and I guess we were due for one.

We played our worst half since I've known these seniors. I've coached them since third grade and I challenged those seniors at halftime. Greenland basketball is about tradition and they see that each day with the banners on the gym wall.

We are seeing signs of significant change in the Arctic with mountain glaciers retreating, snow cover disappearing, the Greenland ice sheet thinning and Arctic sea ice cover declining. There is no time to lose - we need to take drastic action now to combat climate change.

We are looking at about 300 residences. They will be a congregate of housing, townhouses, garden apartments and an assisted-living facility. On the Greenland piece, we are looking at a mixed-use commercial village with retail on the first floors and office space above.

This study supports what we've been learning about the Greenland ice sheet, which is that it will completely melt within 500 to 1,000 years. Our new analysis of the ancient Scandinavian Ice Sheet, like other studies, is showing how these events unfolded in the past, which will help us better understand what the future will hold.

What it means right now is that Greenland is producing 20 percent of the sea rise. We think that contribution will increase from generation to generation.

We will know what the West Antarctic ice sheet is going to do. We will know what the Greenland ice sheet is going to do.

The southern half of Greenland is reacting to what we think is climate warming. The northern half is waiting but I don't think it's going to take long.

This is a real eye-opener set of results. The last time the Arctic was significantly warmer than the present day, the Greenland Ice Sheet melted back the equivalent of two to three meters of sea level.

There were and still are indications that a high pressure building over Greenland is going to expand and force cold air to be pushed back over New England and The Midwest. However, it is appears to be slower in development than originally anticipated. So the moderate weather could continue for another week or two." ()

It's likely that Greenland is going to contribute more and faster to rising sea levels than previously estimated.

I have some big shoes to fill. I am looking to hit it head on. Greenland has had a lot of success and I am excited.

If we burn all the fossil fuels there are, the Greenland ice sheet will melt, raising sea levels 23 feet or so around the world.

In the future, as warming around Greenland progresses further north, we expect additional losses from northwest Greenland glaciers, which will then increase Greenland's contribution to sea level rise.

I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.

These findings call into question predictions of the future of Greenland in a warmer climate from computer models that do not include variations in glacier flow as a component of change. Actual changes will likely be much larger than predicted by these models.

The Greenland ice sheet's contribution to sea level is an issue of considerable societal and scientific importance.

The girls here in Greenland have to believe there's another sport in town, and that's girl's softball. We're not bad, but when we play experienced teams like that we've got to play at the top of our game.

The mass loss resulting from this glacier acceleration in Greenland is very significant. These are very active glaciers. They all end up in the ocean, discharge icebergs and are very dynamic. One you push them a little bit out of equilibrium, they start retreating very fast.

The melting of ice at the edges of the ice sheet is also increasing, which causes the ice to flow faster. A race is going on in Greenland between these competing forces of snow build-up in the interior and ice loss on the edges. But we don't know how long they will be approximately in balance with each other or if that balance has already tipped in favor of the recently accelerating outflow from glaciers.