Global Warnings

• Greenland is an indicator of things to come in the rest of the world because of its sensitivity to climatic changes and because its ice sheet exerts a tremendous influence on many of the Northern Hemisphere's ecological cycles.
  
  
• Over a recent 10-year period, the average winter temperatures on the ice-cap shot up by 11 degree F, a surge so huge that may have seemed too false at first.
  
  
• The data obtained suggest that sea levels may rise by as much as three feet by 2100-higher and faster than even the most pessimistic forecasts predicted.
  
  
• The Greenland ice sheet is, on an average, 5000 feet thick and is constantly being replenished as snow falls each winter. It provides the habitat for many Arctic species.