Massive amounts of melt water under the Greenland Ice

I just like the idea of a snow cone or a slushy from mommy nature:p

There are places where ice will be 3-4 feet thick over a lake in the winter - doesn't mean there's no water in the lake under the ice. The ice layer exists even thought it doesn't extend all the way to the lake bed.

Okay, so besides Icelandic volcanoes we're up to including earthquakes and ocean currents now. But isn't there something else happening here you learned in your geophysics class that's been forgotten about?

To be technical - it's called the permafrost line - things don't freeze under the permafrost lines. Where I am that's between one and two feet. I imagine it extends a little further up there, but they are there, nonetheless. - I guess I need to repeat that the climate there has always been a little warm for that latitude up there because of the very things I wrote in my last post -- water currents, etc. Seems some people in here don't "Get" how it works. Add some massive mantle plumes and underground water is being heated continually and keeps the ground fairly warm. There's ALWAYS been water under the ice in Iceland. Some GW yahoo has decided to knock off most of the facts and just report the water. They do that kind of crap when they get desperate to advance their theory, LMAO. They really, really, really want that tax money!

Kay - The lithosphere under Iceland is only around 70km thick and the mantle is is extremely elastic - which means HEAT. Put on top of that the the ridge that runs through the middle of it is hot. They have some hella hot springs in Iceland. The water they are finding might even be from a hot springs. After earthquakes they sometimes change locations - and old springs will dry up and a new one will form in another area. That's the ground play you get with seismic activity near rifts, ridges, faults, subduction zones, etc. One of our favorite hot springs in ID dried up after that 1989 quake out there. The new one wasn't as kewl.

There are a LOT of people being fooled about warming because they have no clue how geology plays in local climates. There's reports of a few glaciers melting that aren't - they are the same temp that they were, but the forests underneath have been clear cut and now there's no moisture to produce more snow. Greenland was sometimes photoed ffrom the west - where the wind blows the snow right off that side of the mountains. If the other side had been photoed, people would have seen masses of snow.

Even as weak as sun cycle 24 is right now, there's enough geologically thermal anomalies up in that region that it would scary as hell if they didn't have water under their snow. That might mean that hell is actually freezing over and that would not be a good thing.

When scientists REALLY get worried about warming, you will see land being reforested no matter what corporations want to continue to strip the forests. What else do they forget to mention? People also need CO2 for proper respiration. We have 7 billion people on earth -- there had better be high CO2 levels or we're just as screwed as plants are without it.