Sentences with phrase «greenland ice a year»

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greenland was settled around 900 and had agricultural communities for about 400 years until ice advanced.

As for an ice age at the 65million year extinction, don't forget that at that time there was no ice anywhere on the planet, no greenland ice sheet, no antarctic ice sheet, no arctic sea ice.

Yes, I have been to nsidc.org a fair amount, particularly this page to try to understand each Northern Hemisphere summer what is going on with greenland ice melt: http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/ While I do like that page, I must say I have not been able to find what I am looking for there, as far as clear non-scientist-oriented data that shows land ice changes over the years, whether for the Antarctic, Greenland or other places.

For example, the GRIP greenland ice cores show warming, starting 27,000 years ago.

You may be thinking of things like the Younger Dryas event ~ 8000 years ago, but this was not global it was only in the H, seen best in the greenland ice cores.