As a book rose on the US bestseller lists claiming that
global warming was a "scam," and conservative radio hosts
nationwide began claiming that this year's harsh winter
meant that the problem was 'bunk,' increasingly catastrophic
signs of impending sudden climate change continued to build.
During the second week of Feburary, a completely
unprecedented and unexplained heat wave struck Greenland.
Already, melt off Greenland's glaciers has reached record
proportions. Should this heat wave be a portent of a hot
summer in the far north, the stage will be set for the
unfolding of a serious climate catastrophe.
This could take the form of ultra-violent weather, or the
collapse of substantial amounts of Greenland ice into the
sea, or both.
The official record of 60.8 F was recorded in the town of
Frederikshob on the west coast on February 20. The
temperature is the highest recorded winter temperature ever
recorded in Greenland.
Greenland's coastal areas do not typically have harsh
winters, but this temperature was forty degrees above normal
for the month. The warm air spread northward, raising
temperatures all across the ice sheet before dissipating in
the high arctic.
The warm air originated in the Caribbean, and rolled north
along the frontal edge of the jet stream. It was not an
unusual formation for summer, but for it to appear in
midwinter was unprecedented.
The event went generally unreported in the United States.
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