But why the sudden shift in the Nasa image that turned Greenland Pink? The temperature did actually get above freezing for a brief period f time which caused a sudden extensive but short-lived surface melting on the Greenland icecap. Hardly the doomsday scenario the press was reporting. It happens every year, its called summer.

By Elmer Beauregard
If you Google Greenland you will see a main stream media frenzy about how Greenland is melting and its all based on this image:

"These two juxtaposed images of Greenland are based on observations by satellites monitored by Nasa. The view on the left synthesises their collective view of this inhospitable landmass in the Arctic Circle on 8 July 2012. That on the right shows what Greenland looked like to the same satellites on 12 July, just four days later. A huge amount of ice has melted in an extremely unusual Arctic heatwave."

When in actuality there is really not much melting going on at all in fact the temperature has been below freezing for the most part. The day this story came out it was -10C. Here is a webcam from the Summit Station in Greenland taken the day of the release of this story and as you can see Greenland is still quite white.

But why the sudden shift in the Nasa image that turned Greenland Pink? The temperature did actually get above freezing for a brief period f time which caused a sudden extensive but short-lived surface melting on the Greenland icecap. Hardly the doomsday scenario the press was reporting. It happens every year, its called summer.

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